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.

Spring Plant & Spring Pond

Other OS name in the Parish of Melbury Bubb

Historical Forms

  • Spring Pond 1839 TA

Etymology

, Spring Pond (Plant .) 1839TA , named from ' Springs ' marked 6 ″ , v. spring ; this pond may or may not be that which turned scarlet in August 1759 according to an account in Hutch 1 2 462 .