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.

Forty Copse

Other OS name in the Parish of Little Rissington

Etymology

, named from a local family of Forty ( cf. William Forty of Slaughter 1806 PR 17, 121 ) .