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.

Portingbury Hills

Other OS name in the Parish of Hatfield Broad Oak

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is named from an ancient encampment near Porting or Port Street , a trackway leading from Wallbury Camp to Stane Street ( F . W . G . ) .