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.

Grendestow

Early-attested site in the Parish of Weare Gifford

Etymology

The name is possibly to be associated with the families of Walter Gurand , a juror of Torrington in 1238 (Ass ), and Laurence Goraund , a juror of Fremington Hundred in 1249 (Ass ). If so, it is an interesting case of stow being compounded with a post-Conquest pers. name.

Places in the same Parish