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.

Wear Ho

Early-attested site in the Parish of Topsham

Historical Forms

  • Weyre 1549 AD
  • Were 1611 Recov
  • Weare t.Jas1 Rental
  • Ware Mills 1664 DKR40,119

Etymology

v. supra 454.

Places in the same Parish