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.

Port Street

Early-attested site in the Parish of Bengeworth

Historical Forms

  • le Portstrete 13th ADiii

Etymology

Port is here used in its old sense of market-town, v. port and Portway supra 3.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement