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.

Highworthy

Other OS name in the Parish of Clovelly

Historical Forms

Hewurthi 1330 SR

Etymology

is Hewurthi 1330SR (p) . ' High worþig . '

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement

Clovelly