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.

Tumbling Bay

Other OS name in the Parish of Alfold

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. Tumbling Bay Shaw 1839 (TA ) . This is a term connected with the old smelting industry . A ' tumblingbay ' was an out - fall or pool into which the water fell ( Straker xii ) .