English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

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Ramsbury Hundred

Hundred in the County of Wiltshire

Historical Forms

  • Ramesberie hundred 1086 ExonDB
  • Hundred de Rammesbyr' Episcopi 1255 RH

Etymology

v. Ramsbury infra 287. Ramsbury was a manor of the Bishop of Salisbury.

Parishes in this Hundred