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.

Bede House

Other OS name in the Parish of Lyddington

Historical Forms

  • Jesus Hospital 1684 Wright 1846,1863 White

Etymology

is Jesus Hospital 1684 Wright, 1846, 1863 White . It was a small palace of the Bishops of Lincoln and converted into an almshouse for a warden , two poor women and twelve poor men by Thomas , Lord Burghley , in 1602 , v. hospital , bed-hūs .