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.

Overton Green & Overton Hall

Other OS name in the Parish of Astbury

Historical Forms

  • Overton House 1656 Sheaf

Etymology

, 1831 Bry , Overton House 1656Sheaf , ' higher farm ' , v. uferra , tūn .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site