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.

Plaistow

Early-attested site in the Parish of Shirwell

Historical Forms

Plei(e)stou 1086 DB

Pleistowe 1166 RBE

Plegestoue 1167 P

Pleystowe 1242 Fees772 1285 1326 Ipm

Etymology

v. plegstow .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Shirwell