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.

Goarn Spinney

Other OS name in the Parish of Upper Shuckburgh

Historical Forms

  • le Goren 1309 Dugd384

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. Great Gourn , Little Gourn , Gourn Hill 1797 . This is perhaps the plural of gara . Cf. Goren 1237 AD ii ( Salford ) , le Goren 1309 Dugd 384 ( Mollington ) . Longegore ( 1364 ) might refer to one of the two gores .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site