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.

Keynsham

Other OS name in the Parish of Woolaston

Historical Forms

  • Keynesham c.1300 RGl

Etymology

, 1779 Rudder , Keynesham c. 1300 RGl , an OE  pers.n. Cǣgīn ( a derivative of Cǣga ) suggested by Ekwall for Keynsham (So) , v. hamm ' water-meadow ' .