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Survey of English Place-Names

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Winstow Cottages

Other OS name in the Parish of Kingsteignton

Historical Forms

  • Winesthorre 1238 Ass

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Winesthorre 1238Ass (p) . ' Wine 's tor . ' For the modern form , cf. Hestow, Downstow supra 474, 291 . The spellings with stow for stor are due to the reduction of both these final syllables to ster in popular speech . Cf. Plaster Down supra 249 .