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.

be wirtrume

Field in the Parish of Compton Abbas

Historical Forms

be wirtrume 956 ShaftR 1842 TA

Etymology

be wirtrume(2 ×)(v. wyrt-truma'root, root-stock', -e representing either dat.sg. -an ordat.pl. -um).

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement

Compton Abbas