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.

  1. Charlton on Otmoor (Parish in Oxfordshire)

  2. Mountstephen Ho (Early-attested site, Halberton, Devon)

    Whether the family was of local origin we cannot say. The place is on a hill. The form suggests that the name was coined in England and not in

  3. Longsight Lane (Other OS name, Cheadle, Cheshire)

    ( 101–869844 ) . This is a straight stretch of road 300 yards in length , providing a long ' sight ' or view , in the sense used in surveying etc . , v.

  4. Marshrow (Other OS name, Exminster, Devon)

    ( 6 ″ ) is Marshbrowe 1611, Marshrowe 1671Recov . The b is probably a clerical error . The place lies in flat land by the Exe