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.

Boiling Rock

Other OS name in the Parish of Preston

Historical Forms

  • the Boiling Rock 1863 Hutch3

Etymology

, the Boiling Rock 1863 Hutch3 , no doubt so called from a bubbling spring ; Melcombe R . was supplied with water from here until 1857 (Hutch3 2466) .