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.

Bentmire Well

Other OS name in the Parish of Hunsingore

Historical Forms

  • Ventmyre 1540 PrHosp

Etymology

, Ventmyre 1540 PrHosp , v. beonet ' bent-grass ' , mýrr ; initial V - is probably a misreading of b - .