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

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement

Topsham