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 Priory

Other OS name in the Parish of Edith Weston

Etymology

( local ) , 1863 White . Formerly an alien cell of the Benedictine Abbey of St George de Boscherville in Normandy , it passed to the Carthusian house of St Mary and St Anne of Coventry in 1390 Pat . Only its fish ponds remain at SK925 055 , but half of the site is now beneath Rutland Water , v. MER 14 .