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.

Wash

Other OS name in the Parish of Chapel en le Frith

Historical Forms

  • Bawdon washe 1546 Middleton
  • Washe Hy8 DuLa Eliz ib

Etymology

, Bawdon washe 1546Middleton , Washe Hy 8DuLa , Eliz ib , cf. Washe Brocke 1636DuLaSC , the Washbrooke 1640 ib , v. wæsce , brōc , and cf. Bowden Hall supra 61 .