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.

Butter Print

Field in the Parish of Motcombe

Historical Forms

  • 1838 TA 1718 Hutch

Etymology

Butter Print(1718, perhaps a pasture whichproduced good butter, or so named from some topographical resemblanceto a butter-print)