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.

West Stafford

Parish in the County of Dorset

Etymology

Frome Billet was a tithing in the hundred of St George (Hutch3 2514, 533).In 1933 part of W Stafford was transferred to the borough of Dorchester (Kelly).

Major Settlements