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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.

Bay Bridge

Early-attested site in the Parish of Ogbourne St Andrew

Etymology

Bay Bridge. This name is to be taken together with Baymeadow (Fd) infra 498, water called Baylake (1547 Pat), Baywater (1565 WM xxxviii), Bay pyttes (1575 ib.). Mr Brentnall notes that all these names have reference to the bay or dam which formed the King 's Great Stew which lay in the Og between Bay Bridge and Poulton. Frequent mention of it is made in MinAcct from 1280 to c. 1400. See bay sb. in NED.