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.

Old Matford

Early-attested site in the Parish of Heavitree

Etymology

'Mada 's farm,' cf. the same name supra 130. For the modern form v. Introd. xxxv. It may also have been influenced by the not far distant Matford in Exminster infra 496.

Places in the same Parish