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.

Welches Dam

Major Settlement in the Parish of Welches Dam

Historical Forms

  • Welshes Dam 1651 AdvProc
  • Welsh his dam 1652 ib

Etymology

and is named from a dam across the Old Bedford River made by Edmund Welsh , an under overseer to the Adventurers (AdvProc ).

Places in the same Parish