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.

Oxford St.

Other OS name in the Parish of Sixpenny Handley

Etymology

, a woodland track that is long and straight , thus presumably a humorous transferred use of the London st . n. , cf. Lardenhall supra .