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.

Flower's Fm & Flower's Moor

Other OS name in the Parish of Batcombe

Etymology

, cf. Flowers Grd &Flowers Orchd 1839TA ; Flower 's Fm ( 1903 6″ ) is Friary of St Francis ( 1974 1 ″ ) , referring to the Home of St Francis of Assisi for wayfarers , founded here in 1921 .