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.

Totterdown

Other OS name in the Parish of Chieveley

Etymology

, no early forms have been found , but in view of its proximity to a hill - fort this can safely be interpreted as ' hill with a look-outhouse ' from tōtærn and dūn , cf. BdHu 140 .