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.

Score

Early-attested site in the Parish of Ilfracombe

Historical Forms

  • atte Score 1330 SR

Etymology

Score was the home of William atte Score (1330SR ). The place is on a steep hillside and we probably have the same unrecorded OE  word discussed s. n. Shoreham (PN Sx 246). For initial sc , v. Introd. xxxv. See also Scur supra 34.