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.

Whitesand Cross

Early-attested site in the Parish of Donhead St Andrew

Etymology

Whitesand Cross is Whitson Cross 1608, Whitsun Cross 1677 Hoare. Probably Whitson here represents the local pronunciation of Whitsand , descriptive of the soil.