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.

Charing Cross

Other OS name in the Parish of Chetnole

Etymology

, a crossroads , no doubt a humorous borrowing of the well - known London name , cf. also the f.n. Piccadilly infra ( v. Mills DLnPN 44 , 177 ) .