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.

Povington

Field in the Parish of East Holme

Historical Forms

  • 1841 TA

Etymology

Povington(a piece ofwater meadow on R. Frome, no doubt once belonging to the manor ofPovington in Tyneham par. infra, cf. Creech supra)

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement