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.

General Whitelocks '

Field in the Parish of Motcombe

Historical Forms

  • 1838 TA
  • ten ' Whitloc 1838 TA
  • vie voc ' Whitelockes 1838 TA
  • meadowe … called Whetlockes 1609 LRMB

Etymology

GeneralWhitelocks'(ten' Whitloc 1415, vie voc' Whitelockes 1501, meadowecalled Whetlockes 1609, cf. Edith Whitlok 1327(Silton))