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.

Rixdale

Other OS name in the Parish of East and West Dawlish

Historical Forms

  • Rixstyle 1671 Recov

Etymology

is Rixstyle 1671Recov . Without earlier forms certainty is impossible , but the name is probably identical with Rixdale supra 488 .