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.

Welstor

Early-attested site in the Parish of Ashburton

Historical Forms

  • Welestorre 1281 Ass
  • Wellestorre c.1326 Exon
  • Welstorre 1330,1333 SR

Etymology

'Tor of (or by) the spring,' v. torr , wielle , and cf. Welsford supra 77. There is a spring here.