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.

Rotherley Down

Other OS name in the Parish of Berwick St John

Historical Forms

  • Rotherley ib.

Etymology

is Rotherley ib. Cf. also lez Rotherdowne ib. The first element is OE  hryðer , ' cattle . '