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.

Moat Court

Early-attested site in the Parish of Great Malvern

Historical Forms

  • Grange de la Motte 1535 VE
  • Mote Court 1541 LP

Etymology

OFr  mote , motte was used of a mound, hillock, or embankment and may already in Normandy have come to develop its later English sense of moat or ditch. There is still a moat here.