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.

Whitchurch Fm with Whychurch Marsh Bridge

Other OS name in the Parish of Malmesbury

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. Whitechurch 1252 Ch , la Whytechurche 1284RegMalm . “ Here hath been a church ; it is now converted into a dwelling house : but the steeple remaynes still ” ( Aubrey267 ) .