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.

Higher Somerwell

Other OS name in the Parish of Thelbridge

Historical Forms

  • Somerwill(e) 1330,1333 SR

Etymology

is Somerwill (e )1330, 1333SR (p) , and probably takes its name from a never - dry spring , v. wielle .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement