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.

Tenfoot Bridge

Other OS name in the Parish of Buckland

Historical Forms

  • Ten foot Wear 1830 OS

Etymology

, Ten foot Wear 1830 OS ; F . S . Thacker , The Thames Highway . Locks and Weirs ( 1920 ) , p. 69 , suggests that the name is from a 10 - foot opening in the weir for the barge traffic .