English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

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Featherstone

Major Settlement in the Parish of Wolverhampton (det)

Historical Forms

  • Feoþer(e)stan 996 (lost) Dugd vi 1443–6 (No 1), Sawyer 1380
  • Ferdestan 1086 DB
  • Federestan 1186 P
  • Federeston 1371 Pat 1451 FF 1535 VE
  • Fetherstan 1280–90 Wodehouse
  • Fether(e)ston 1244 Pat 1271 For 1300 c.1291 Tax 1304 Ipm 1332 SR 1392 Pat 1411 ProcJP 1588 Lane 1755 Bowen
  • Fethorston' 1352 Weld
  • Fetheruston 1385 Wodehouse
  • Fetherstone 1294 CoramR 1306 GDR 1307 Banco 1327 1775 Yates
  • Fethurstone 1393 Ass
  • Featherston 1687 Wodehouse
  • Featherstone 1834 O

Etymology

'The tetralith', v. feoðer-stān. The name also occurs in YW 2 86 with similar forms. cf. also the Fetstone in the mosse Eliz ChancP in QuarnfordPar. infra . No trace of the tetralith survives.