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.

Carswalls Manor

Early-attested site in the Parish of Newent

Historical Forms

  • Crasowel 1086 DB
  • Kers(e)well' 1186 P 1220 Fees 1221 Ass 1292 FF
  • Kers(e)will 1269 ib
  • Kars(e)well(e), Cars(e)well(e) 1221 FF 1236 FF c.1240 Newent56 1399 Pat
  • Cars(e)wall(e) 1253 Newent73 1403 Ass c.1580 LRMB
  • Cassewalle 1303 FA
  • Casselde als. Carswall 1575 FF
  • Craswalle 1327 SR
  • Crasewallys 1581 Rent15

Etymology

'Well or spring where cress grew', v. cærse , wella , later replaced by Merc  wælla; a common p.n.