Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• le Speech Court 1635 For10

• the speech house greene 1669 Comm

• the king's lodge oftener called the speech-house 1779 Rudder

Etymology

Speech Ho, le Speech Court 1635For 10, the speech house greene 1669Comm , the king 's lodge oftener called the speech-house 1779 Rudder 29.v. spēc 1 , hūs . This was the verderers' court-house of the Forest of Dean (cf. BG xliii, 69 and C. E. Hart, The Verderers and Speech -Court of the Forest of Dean , Gloucester 1950).