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.

Room Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Okeford Fitzpaine

Historical Forms

  • messuage and tenement called Rome-house 1544 Hutch3

Etymology

, messuage and tenement called Rome-house 1544Hutch3 , possibly from ME  rum-hous ' a privy ' ( a jocularly ironical term , literally ' spacious house ' , found only in the 13th century poem O & N , v .