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.

Furze

Early-attested site in the Parish of West Buckland

Historical Forms

  • Fersa 1086 DB
  • atte Forse 1330 SR

Etymology

v. fyrs .

Places in the same Parish