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.

Maryland Point

Early-attested site in the Parish of West Ham

Etymology

Maryland Point (6″) is “a cluster of houses near Stratford: the first of them were erected by a Merchant, who had got a fortune in that Colony, from whence they took their name” (M i, 18).