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.

East-the-Water

Early-attested site in the Parish of Bideford

Etymology

East-the-Water is probably an old settlement, for in 1489 there is mention of a grant to William Person 'of his tenement in Bydeford on the east side of the water called Torigge' (AD vi).

Places in the same Parish