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.

Gawton

Early-attested site in the Parish of Bere Ferrers

Historical Forms

Goueton 1311 Ass

Estgouaton juxta Tauystok 1346 Ass

Gawton 1496 Ipm

Etymology

v. Goveton infra 318.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Bere Ferrers