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.

Exmouth

Early-attested site in the Parish of Littleham

Historical Forms

  • Exanmuða c.1025 ASC s.a.1001
  • (on) Exanmuðan 1042 KCD1332 13th
  • (of) Examuða 1072–1103 Earle

Etymology

Further forms are unnecessary, but it may be mentioned that most of the early records of the name refer to the mouth of the river Exe and not to the town of Exmouth, which is of much later origin.

Places in the same Parish