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.

Steeple

Parish in the County of Dorset

Etymology

Creech Grange in this par. was formerly in Bindon Liberty (Hutch3 1349), v. note under Winfrith Hundred infra . Blackmanston and Lutton in this par. were formerly parcels of the manor of Povington in Tyneham par. infra (Hutch3 1607).

Major Settlements