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.

Downton

Other OS name in the Parish of Dittisham

Historical Forms

Douneton 1482 MinAcct

Etymology

is Douneton 1482MinAcct . ' Hill farm , ' v. dun , tun .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Dittisham