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.

Wrixhill

Other OS name in the Parish of Bratton Clovelly

Etymology

is Wykyshille 1378, Wrixell Bridge 1684 DA 27 . Perhaps identical in origin with Wrixhill infra 182 , but the forms are too few for certainty .