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.

Well Head

Other OS name in the Parish of Hauxton

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. le Welhed 1484Ct ( in Barrington ) and Apewellesheved 1304 , s. n. Hoffer Bridge supra 85 . v. wielle , hēafod .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Major Settlement