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.

Swanborough Tump

Early-attested site in the Parish of Manningford Abbots

Historical Forms

  • Swanabeorh 987 LibHyda 15th

Etymology

Swanborough Tump (6″) is Swanabeorh 987 (15th) LibHyda.'Barrow of the peasants,' v. swan , beorh . The Hundred meeting- place, v. supra 317. For Tump , v. infra 476.

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name