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.

Peasons Plantations

Other OS name in the Parish of Abbotsbury

Historical Forms

  • Peasen 1619 Digby

Etymology

, Peasen 1619Digby , named from the family of John Peasinge , abbot of Abbotsbury in 1505(Hutch3 2718–9) .