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.

Compton Place

Early-attested site in the Parish of Eastbourne

Etymology

Compton Place was formerly called Bourne Place (17th) and Eastbourne Place (18th cent.). It was renamed when it passed from the Compton family (successors of Sir Spencer Compton, who acquired it in 1724) to the family of Cavendish, from whom it descended to the Duke of Devonshire.