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.
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Oak Well
Oak Well
Early-attested site in the Parish of Poole Keynes
Etymology
Oak
Well
(6″). Cf.
Okewell
hed
1591 WM iv.
Places in the same Parish
Major Settlement
Poole Keynes