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.

The Almshouses

Other OS name in the Parish of Frolesworth

Historical Forms

  • Frolesworth Hospital 1807 Nichols

Etymology

, 1846, 1863, 1877 White , v. almes-hous ; also called Frolesworth Hospital 1807 Nichols , v. hospital . Founded in 1725 for 22 poor women by John Smith , Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer for Scotland , who was born in Frolesworth in 1656 .