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.

Wallis Down

Other OS name in the Parish of Kinson

Etymology

, 1811 OS , cf. Wallis Ford 1811 ib ( where a N - S road crosses R . Bourne ) ; the first el . may be a surname , cf. Richard Waleys 1332 SR .