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.

The Folly

Other OS name in the Parish of Kintbury

Etymology

, 1761 Rocque , v. folie , O.S . maps place the name at the summit of a wooded hill .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement