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.

Townhouses

Early-attested site in the Parish of Leverington

Etymology

Townhouses (6″) is a group of twenty-one houses, all brick, inhabited rent free by paupers. Six of them were erected by the terms of the will of Edward Cross in 1633 on land called Midd Feather . Cf. Midfether 1586Ct (Wisbech), Middffetter 1606Depositions (Stretham), Midfitters 1653 EA xiii (Haddenham).