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.

Stourtown

Early-attested site in the Parish of Sampford Spiney

Historical Forms

  • Sturrtown 1740 Recov
  • atte Sturte 1377 Ct
  • Sturte 1428 FA

Etymology

v. steort . The farm lies on a well- marked tongue of land. See, however, Walkham river supra 16.

Places in the same Parish