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.

Freshwater Bay, Freshwater Quarries

Other OS name in the Parish of Portland

Etymology

( 1892 Map ) , probably in allusion to a spring or stream , cf. Freshwater Steps in Corfe C . par . supra .