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.

Rempstone Gate

Other OS name in the Parish of Tyneham

Etymology

, cf. Rainstone Fd 1841TA , where the road from Whiteway supra crosses the par . bdy ( which is also the bdy of the Isle of Purbeck ) to E Lulworth par . infra ; the name may refer to a former stone circle recorded by Warne in e19 and assumed by Legg 109 to have been here , cf. Rempstone in Corfe C . par . supra .