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.

Ratcliffes

Other OS name in the Parish of Broad Clyst

Historical Forms

  • Radeclive in Clistun, Rateclive 13th StNicholas
  • Redeclyve 1407–10 AddCh

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Radeclive in Clistun , Rateclive 13thSt Nicholas , Redeclyve 1407–10AddCh (p) . ' Red clif . ' The s is pseudo - manorial .