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.

Lower Street

Other OS name in the Parish of Winterborne Whitchurch

Historical Forms

  • Lr Whitchurch 1811 OS

Etymology

, Lr Whitchurch 1811 OS , v. strǣt , here denoting the lower end of the straggling village .