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.

Horestone

Other OS name in the Parish of Witheridge

Historical Forms

  • atte Horeston' 1330 SR

Etymology

was probably the home of Gervase atte Horeston '1330SR . ' Boundary stone , ' v. har , stan . The place lies by the parish boundary .