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.

Easerfield Coppice

Early-attested site in the Parish of Kyre Magna al. Kyre Wyard

Historical Forms

  • Eswaldfield 1669 Kyre

Etymology

The forms of this name are very late but it looks as if the first element were a pers. name Ēswald . Such names in Ēs - are not on record, but as we have, side by side in OE , pers. names Ōsa and Oesa with un-mutated and mutated vowels from the stem Ōs - so commonly found in OE  pers. names, so there may have been such pairs of compound-names as Ōswald , Ēswald .

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement