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.

Beer Acre

Other OS name in the Parish of Thorncombe

Historical Forms

  • Hr Beer Acre & Lr Beer Acre 1841 ib

Etymology

, Hr Beer Acre & Lr Beer Acre 1841ib , cf. Lt Beer ib , not close to either Bearhall Fm or Beere Fm both supra , but probably of identical origin .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement