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.

Spreyton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Spreyton

Historical Forms

  • Espreitona 1086 DB(Exon)
  • Spreitone
  • Spreyton(e) 1234 Fees399 1269 Exon 1286 Ass 1291 Tax
  • Spreiton 1238 Ass 1242 Fees785
  • Espreto' 1169 P
  • Spreton(e) 1216 ClR 1238 Ass 1316 Ipm
  • Sprayton 1346 FA 1355 Pat 1377 SR 1420 Ass

Etymology

'Farm in the brushwood land,' v. tun , cf. Sprytown supra 208.