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.

Sowton

Other OS name in the Parish of Buckland Monachorum

Historical Forms

  • Suthetone 1313 Ass
  • Southton 16th Oliver

Etymology

is Suthetone 1313Ass (p), Southton 16th Oliver 381 . ' South farm , ' v. tun and cf. Sowton infra 233 .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement