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.

Heathfield Brake

Early-attested site in the Parish of Ottery St Mary

Historical Forms

  • hæðfeld mere 1061 Ottery 1227
  • Hethfeldmere 1339 Ass

Etymology

'Waste land,' v. Heathfield supra 265. me (a )re is probably the OE  (ge)mære, the place being on the parish boundary.