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.

Elmbury

Other OS name in the Parish of Ashchurch

Etymology

, a modern housing estate at Newtown , the name being taken from the title of John Moore 's Portrait of Elmbury ( London 1947 ) , which is based upon Tewkesbury ; the f.n. Embury 's orchard ( infra ) is not connected .