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.

Old Ram

Other OS name in the Parish of Wareham Lady St Mary & St Martin

Etymology

, bdy stones where the par . bdys of Bere R . and Wareham St M . meet the old bdy of Morden ( as in 1846TA ) , perhaps so called from their fancied resemblance to a ram , v. ramm .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement