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.

Old Town

Early-attested site in the Parish of Brackley

Etymology

Old Town. Cf. Heldetunfeld c. 1260Magd , le Eldetonfeld c. 1290 ib., Old townmylne 1425 ib., le Oldtonfeld 1426 ib. 'Old farm or enclosure,' v. tun , with interesting abandonment of southern eld for StEng  old from OE  eald. Cf. Introd. xxxi.

Places in the same Parish