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.

Freebodies

Early-attested site in the Parish of Dudley

Etymology

A name of the manorial type, deriving from the family of Frebodi found in Dudley in 1275 and 1327 (SR).

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement