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.

Shopwells

Other OS name in the Parish of Mottram in Longdendale

Historical Forms

  • Shop Wells 1831 Bry

Etymology

, Shop Wells 1831Bry , v. wella ' a well, a spring ' . The first el . may be sc(e)oppa ' a shop,a shed ' . Cf. Wardlebrook Fm infra .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site