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.

Sturgis Close

Field in the Parish of Theddingworth

Historical Forms

  • Sturgis Close 1616 Deed

Etymology

Sturgis Close 1616 (with the surn. Sturges, a reflex of the ON   masc. pers. n. þorgils (ODan   Thorgisl))