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.

Watson's Gorse

Other OS name in the Parish of Drayton

Historical Forms

  • the Hon. R. Watson 1846 White

Etymology

, v. gorst ; the Hon . R. Watson 1846 White was at this date a major landowner in the parish .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Major Settlement