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.

Dunbury, Dunbury Lane & Dunbury Leg

Other OS name in the Parish of Winterborne Houghton

Historical Forms

  • pasture called Dunbaro 1603 Weld2
  • Dunberry(s) (freq), Dunberry Copse & Dunberry Md 1838 TA

Etymology

, pasture called Dunbaro 1603Weld 2, Dunberry (s ) (freq ),Dunberry Copse & Dunberry Md 1838TA , ' barrow on the down ' , from dūn ' hill ' and beorg , with reference to a tumulus ( marked 6 ″ ) on Houghton S Down infra .