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.

Waterloo

Field in the Parish of West Stour

Historical Forms

  • 1842 TA 1842 TA

Etymology

Waterloo(probably a name commemoratingthe battle of 1815 like Waterloo Lane in Silton par. supra, cf. Wellingtonsinfra; Lowerloo and Middloo supra, the names of fields adjacent to thisone, are presumably humorous adaptations of Waterloo)