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.

Emmots

Early-attested site in the Parish of Overbury

Etymology

This field-name survived in the 19th cent. and clearly corresponds to the eomot sic and eomodes poll of the bounds of Overbury (BCS 541). Eomot sic is a small stream running into the Carrant Brook (v. sic ) and eomot is doubtless an error for ea-mot, 'river-meet.' eomodes poll would seem to be for eamotes-pull , 'pool or stream of (or by) the river-meet.'

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement