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.

Churchill

Early-attested site in the Parish of Malborough

Historical Forms

  • Curcheswille 1201 FF
  • Curcheswell 1286 Ass
  • Corcheswille juxta Malleburgh 1296 Ass

Etymology

'Spring of or by the hill or barrow,' v. wielle . For cyric , v. Churchill PN Wo 106.