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.

Shitley

Other OS name in the Parish of Winterborne Houghton

Historical Forms

  • Cops called Shitterly als. Oxencomb 1603 Weld2

Etymology

, Cops called Shitterly als. Oxencomb 1603Weld 2 , v. lēah ' clearing ' , Oxencumbe infra ; the first el . is probably scitere ' stream used as asewer ' , also perhaps simply ' dirty stream ' , cf. Shitterton 1276 .