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.

Gage Place

Early-attested site in the Parish of Little Berkhamsted

Etymology

Gage Place (6″) is earlier Gaze or Gaze Place and is so called from a circular tower built as an observatory in 1789 (VCH iii, 428).