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.

Paradise

Field in the Parish of Motcombe

Historical Forms

  • 1838 TA
  • close … called Paradice 1609 LRMB

Etymology

Paradise(andStrap)(closecalled Paradice 1609, v. paradis(here ironical, v. B.K.248), strap)