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.

Fishacre

Early-attested site in the Parish of Broadhempston

Historical Forms

  • Fishacre 1210–12 RBE
  • Fisacre 1242 Fees769
  • Fischacre 1260 Ipm
  • Fissakere 1265 Exon
  • Fissacre 1276 Cl
  • Fysshacre 1359 Ass

Etymology

The meaning of the compound is not very clear. It may have referred to a field for which dead fish were used as manure, or possibly to a field where fish were found after some inundation. The land here is low-lying.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement