English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Cheshire Acre

Field in the Parish of Whitchurch

Historical Forms

  • 1837 TA

Etymology

Cheshire Acre(the Ch acre wasalmost twice the area of the standard English acre, v. æcer)

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement