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.

Compton Valence

Parish in the County of Dorset

Etymology

Compton Valence is in Frampton liberty, q. v. under Tollerford hundred supra : part of the par. was originally in this hundred.

Major Settlements