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.

Justment

Early-attested site in the Parish of South Tawton

Historical Forms

  • Agismont (sic) in parochia de Southtawton 1713 Recov

Etymology

Justment , gistment , 'piece of land of which the pasture or grazing is let,' is still a dialect word in D, v. NEDs. v. Properly it is a Norman-French legal term, and more than one example of it is found in Devon farm-names. v. Introd. xxvii.