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.

Ashbeach (Fm)

Early-attested site in the Parish of Ramsey

Historical Forms

  • Assebeche 1286 c.1350 Rams
  • Osbich 1601 BM

Etymology

'Ash-beach,' descriptive probably of a farm with ash-trees on the edge or 'beach' of a mere, in the days before the draining of the Fens. Cf. Chalderbeach supra 188.