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.

North Down(lost)

Other OS name in the Parish of Winterborne St Martin

Historical Forms

  • pastur' voc' Northdown 1463 Weld1

Etymology

( lost ) , 1811 OS , pastur ' voc ' Northdown 1463Weld 1 , cf. Northdown fd 1841TA , v. norð , dūn ; it lay N of the village , cf. South Down infra .