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.

Friern

Other OS name in the Parish of Downham

Historical Forms

Hospital Fm 1777 C

Etymology

is Hospital Fm 1777 C . St Bartholomew 's Hospital had land in the parish in 1392 (M i, 207) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Downham