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.

May Pole Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Harlton

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is near the junction of the parishes of Barrington , Orwell and Harlton . It is named from the old Orwell maypole which “ until 1870 stood in a clump of fir trees on the hill west of the road , the old Akeman Street ” ( Hughes , Cambridgeshire 244 ) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Major Settlement