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.

Tongue Copse

Other OS name in the Parish of Mosterton

Historical Forms

  • Tongue 1838 ib

Etymology

, Tongue 1838ib , a long narrow coppice so called from its shape , v. tunge .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement