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.

Chesters Well

Field in the Parish of West Stour

Historical Forms

  • 1842 TA

Etymology

Chesters Well(recently identified by M.S. Ross,DoNHAS 106118, as the site of a Roman settlement, so perhaps originallyfrom ceaster)

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name