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.

Priory

Other OS name in the Parish of Portland

Historical Forms

  • ground called Priorie, Pryorie 1608 LRMB

Etymology

, ground called Priorie , Pryorie 1608LRMB , v. priory ; perhaps to be associated with the priory of St Swithun 's , Winchester ( the Old Minster ) which held Portland from the time of Edward the Confessor until 13th cent.(VCHDo 330) .

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