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.

Gibraltar

Other OS name in the Parish of Fledborough

Etymology

. Cf. infra 293 . The exact reason for the name is obscure . It is possibly so called from its situation at a definite narrowing of the width of the parish .

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement

Early-attested site