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.

Bury, Great and Little

Early-attested site in the Parish of East Lavington, otherwise Woolavington

Etymology

Bury, Great and Little (6″), cf. Richard atte Bury (1296 SR).Probably an example of the manorial use of burh.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement