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.

Botany Bay

Other OS name in the Parish of Castle Eaton

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is in the south - east corner of the parish and bears a common nickname denoting remoteness , cf. infra 435 .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement