Coniston Cold

From Middle English Calde Kuningeston (recorded 1202), from Old English cald (“cold”) + Cuningestone (recorded 1086 in the Domesday Book), from Old Norse konungs (“king's”) + Old English tūn (“fort, manor, town”). The reference to "cold" referred to its exposed location and distinguished it from other similar placenames. Doublet of Coniston. Cf. also Conington, Conisbrough, Coningsby, Kingston, Kingstone, Kingstown, Kingsburg, and Kingsville.

A small village and civil parish in Craven district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD9055).


Frankton

A village and civil parish in Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4270).


Somersham

A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3678).

A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM0848).


Holsworthy Hamlets

A civil parish in Torridge district, Devon, England.


Stoke Climsland

A village and civil parish in east Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX3674)


Dymock

en-proper noun

Dymock (countable and uncountable, plural Dymocks)

From either Welsh ty (“house”) or din (“stronghold, fortress”) + moch (“swine; pigsty”).

A village and civil parish in Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO6931).


Gipping

A small village and civil parish (served by Old Newton with Dagworth and Gipping Parish Council) in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM0763).


Burton Salmon

A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district (OS grid ref SE4927).


Kenwyn

A civil parish in Cornwall, England, north and west of Truro.


Madron

A village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, north-west of Penzance (OS grid ref SW4531).


St Mellion

A village and civil parish in east Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX3865).


Bayford

Bayford (countable and uncountable, plural Bayfords)

From the Old English personal name Bōia + ford (“ford”).
In Hertfordshire, recorded as Begesford 1086 (Domesday Book), and Begeford in 1090; the ford of a man called Bǣga.

East Hertfordshire
East Hertfordshire#English

A village and civil parish in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3108).


Stoke Trister

A village and civil parish (served by Stoke Trister with Bayford Parish Council) in South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7328).


Bilton

Bilton (countable and uncountable, plural Biltons)

From the Old English personal name Billa + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”). In the case of the place in Warwickshire, the first element is probably Old English beolone (“henbane”).

East Riding of Yorkshire
East Riding of Yorkshire#English

A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA160330).


Helpringham

A village and civil parish in North Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1340).


Dumbleton

Dumbleton (countable and uncountable, plural Dumbletons)

From Old English dumbel (“shady hollow”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).

A village and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0136).


Bretherton

Bretherton (countable and uncountable, plural Brethertons)

From Old English brēþer, dative form of brōþor (“brother”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”). Compare Brotherton.

A village and civil parish in Chorley borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4720).


Tow Law

A small town and civil parish with a town council in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1139).


Mawdesley

Mawdesley (countable and uncountable, plural Mawdesleys)

Mawdesleys (plural)
Maudsley (alternative)
Mawdsley (alternative)

From the Anglo-Norman female given name Maud + Middle English ley (“meadow”).

A village and civil parish in Chorley borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD491145).


Hoghton

Hoghton (countable and uncountable, plural Hoghtons)

A village and civil parish in Chorley borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD614263).


Chiddingstone

From the Old English personal name Cidda + stān (“stone”).

A village and civil parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ495455).


Luddington

Luddington (countable and uncountable, plural Luddingtons)

Luddingtons (plural)
Ludington (alternative)

From the Old English personal name Luda + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).

A village and civil parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP165525).


Thorpe St Andrew

A suburb of Norwich and civil parish with a town council in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2609).


Blymhill and Weston-under-Lizard

South Staffordshire
South Staffordshire#English

A civil parish in South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England.


Parracombe

A village and civil parish in North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS6644).


Rylstone

A small village and civil parish in Craven district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD9658).


Thurgoland

A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2801).


Pickmere

A village and civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6877).


Agden

A civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7186).

Cheshire West and Chester
Cheshire West and Chester#English

A civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ5044).


Ringway

Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester#English

A civil parish and locality in the City of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, which includes Manchester Airport (OS grid ref SJ8184).


Sherrington

Sherrington (countable and uncountable, plural Sherringtons)

From the Old English personal name Sċīra, itself from sċīr (“bright, shining”), + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).

A village and civil parish (without a council) in the Wylye Valley, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9639).


Littlemore

A suburb and civil parish in the City of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP5302).


Blackbird Leys

An outer suburb and civil parish in the City of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP5502).


Loversall

A small village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK5798).


Icklesham

A village and civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ8716).


Elmton

A village and civil parish (served by Elmton with Creswell Parish Council) in Bolsover district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK5073).


Thornville

A civil parish (without a council) near Kirk Hammerton, Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4554).


Holme Valley

A large civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.


Weybourne

A village and civil parish in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG1143).


Froggatt

Froggatt (countable and uncountable, plural Froggatts)

From Old English frocga (“frog”) + cot (“cottage”).

Derbyshire Dales
Derbyshire Dales#English

A village and civil parish (without a council) in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2476).


Oxspring

A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2602).


Ravensworth

A village and civil parish in Richmondshire district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ1407).


Sharlston

A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3918).


Hickleton

A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4805).


Brodsworth

A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5007).


Longdon

Longdon (countable and uncountable, plural Longdons)

From Old English lang (“long”) + dūn (“hill”).

A village and civil parish in Lichfield district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0714).

A village and civil parish (served by Longdon, Queenhill and Holdfast Parish Council) in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8336).


Queenhill

A hamlet and civil parish (served by Longdon, Queenhill and Holdfast Parish Council) in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO858369).


Holdfast

A hamlet and civil parish (served by Longdon, Queenhill and Holdfast Parish Council) in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO853378).


Cherington

A village and civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST9098).

A village and civil parish (served by Cherington and Stourton Joint Parish Council) in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2936).


Compton Dando

Bath and North East Somerset
Bath and North East Somerset#English

A village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6464).


Easingwold

A market town and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE5269).


Pirton

North Hertfordshire
North Hertfordshire#English

A village and civil parish in North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1437).

Drakes Broughton and Wadborough
Drakes Broughton and Wadborough

A small village and civil parish (served by Drakes Broughton and Wadborough with Pirton Parish Council) in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8847).


Thropton

A village and civil parish in Northumberland, England, west of Rothbury (OS grid ref NU0202).


Stoke Poges

Manorial affix from the le Pugeis family of the 13th century.

A large village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in South Bucks district (OS grid ref SU9884).


Sturton le Steeple

The affix le Steeple refers to the tower of the parish church, which has several pinnacles, but no proper steeple.

A village and civil parish in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7884).


Middleton St George

A village and civil parish in Darlington borough, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ3413).


ٹلفورڈ

ur-proper noun

ٹِلْفورْڈ • (ṭilforḍ) m (Hindi spelling टिल्फ़ोर्ड)

ٹِلْفورْڈ (canonical)
ṭilforḍ (romanization)
टिल्फ़ोर्ड (Hindi)

Borrowed from English Tilford / Tylford.

موجودہ نو تعمیر شدہ مرکز احمدیت اسلام آباد کا اولین ریکارڈ 1762ء کے نقشہ جات سے ملتا ہے۔ دریائے وے کے دونوں اطراف میں ٹلفورڈ برج نامی گاؤں کا ذکر ملتا ہے جو کہ اب ٹلفورڈ گرین کے نام سے جانی جاتی ہے۔

2019 August 2, “تاریخ اسلام آباد (اٹھارہویں صدی سے تعمیرِ مرکز تک)”, in الفظل [Al Fazl]:

The earliest record of the newly inaugurated headquarters of Ahmadiyyat, Islamabad, can be found in maps dated 1762 AD. On both sides of the River Way there is mention of a village named Tylford Bridge, now known as Tilford Green.

maujūdah nau taʻmīr śiddah markaz-e aḥmadiyyat islām ābād kā āvvalīn rīkārḍ 1762ʻ ke naqśah jāt se miltā hai. dariya'e ve ke donoṉ at̤rāf meṉ ṭilforḍ brij nāmī gā'oṉ kā ẕikr miltā hai jo kih ab ṭilforḍ grīn ke nām se jānī jātī hai.

Tilford (a civil parish of Surrey, South East, England)


Arreton

A village and civil parish in the centre of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5486).


Fulstow

Inherited from Old English Fuglestow, from fugol (“bird”) + stow (“place”).

A village and civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3297).


Weedon Bec

West Northamptonshire
West Northamptonshire#English

A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, formerly in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP6259).


Ripponden

A village and civil parish in Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0319).


Watchet

Somerset West and Taunton
Somerset West and Taunton#English

A harbour town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST0743).


Crowcombe

A village and civil parish in Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST1436).


Brightling

A village and civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ6821).


Rolvenden

A village and civil parish in Ashford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8431).


Wittersham

A village and civil parish in Ashford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8927).


Waddesdon

Likely Old English Wott + -s- + dūn (hill).

A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7416).


Farnsfield

Newark and Sherwood
Newark and Sherwood#English

A village and civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6456).


Warboys

en-proper noun

Warboys (countable and uncountable, plural Warboyses)

Warboyses (plural)
Worboise (alternative)
Worboyes (alternative)
Worboys (alternative)

The placename is recorded in the Domesday Book as Wardebusc, suggesting a derivation from Old Norse varði (“beacon; landmark”) + buskr (“brushwood, bush”).

A village and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL315797).


Chatburn

Chatburn (countable and uncountable, plural Chatburns)

Chatburns (plural)
Chadbourn (alternative)
Chadbourne (alternative)
Chadburn (alternative)

From the Old English personal name Ceatta + burne (“stream, brook, small river”).

A village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD765445).


Stalbridge

A small town and civil parish with a town council in north Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST7317).


Stourpaine

A village and civil parish in north Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST8609).


Pitcombe

A village and civil parish in South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6733).


Spetisbury

A village and civil parish in north Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST9102).


Whixley

From the Old English personal name Cwichelm + lēah (“clearing”).

A village and civil parish in the Harrogate district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE443580).


Keyworth

Keyworth (countable and uncountable, plural Keyworths)

From an unclear first element, perhaps Old English cā (“jackdaw”), cȳ (“cows”), or cǣg (“key; peg, pole”), + worþ (“enclosure”).

A large village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6131).


Stanton-on-the-Wolds

From Stanton + on + the + wolds, from various names. Such names are Stanture (1086), Estanton (1235), and Stanton Super Wold (1240-1280).

A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6330).


Welby

Welby (countable and uncountable, plural Welbys)

From Old English wielle (“spring, well”) + Old Norse býr (“settlement”).

A village and civil parish in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK9738).


Freeby

A village and civil parish in Melton borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK8020).


Braunston-in-Rutland

A village and civil parish in Rutland, England (OS grid ref SK8306).


Egleton

A village and civil parish (without a council) in Rutland, England (OS grid ref SK8707).


Hoby with Rotherby

A civil parish in Melton borough, Leicestershire, England.


Puddington

A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3273).

A village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS8310).


Tansley

Tansley (countable and uncountable, plural Tansleys)

From Old English tān (“twig, branch”) + -s- + lēah (“clearing, glade”).

A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3259).


Belton with Browston

A civil parish in Great Yarmouth borough, Norfolk, England.


Stoke Ferry

King's Lynn and West Norfolk
King's Lynn and West Norfolk#English

A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TL7099).


Burnham Market

A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF8342).


East Chevington

A civil parish on the coast of Northumberland, England.


Lopen

A small village and civil parish in South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4214).


Chartham

A village and civil parish in Canterbury district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1055).


Askwith

Askwith (countable and uncountable, plural Askwiths)

From Old Norse askr (“ash tree”) + viðr (“tree, wood”).

A village and civil parish in the Harrogate district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE169482).


Holtby

Holtby (countable and uncountable, plural Holtbys)

From the Old Norse personal name Holti + býr (“settlement”).

A small village and civil parish in City of York district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE6754).


Laxfield

A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM2972).


Rillington

A village and civil parish in Ryedale district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE8574).


Lane End

A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, formerly in Wycombe district (OS grid ref SU8192).


Leybourne

en-proper-noun

Leybourne (countable and uncountable, plural Leybournes)

From Old English lēah (“clearing, glade”) + burna (“stream, spring, fountain”).

Tonbridge and Malling
Tonbridge and Malling#English

A village and civil parish in Tonbridge and Malling district, Kent, England.


Corsley

A hamlet and civil parish west of Warminster, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8246).


Ivinghoe

From the Old English personal name Ifa + -ing (“belonging to”) + hōh (“promontory, hill-spur”).

A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP946162).


Knettishall

A village and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England.


Fountains Earth

Originally a township, the name comes from Fountains Abbey, which owned the land in the past. Fountains Earth Moor is within the parish.

A civil parish (served by Upper Nidderdale Group Parish Council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Harrogate borough.


Kingsnorth

Kingsnorth (countable and uncountable, plural Kingsnorths)

From Old English cyning (“king”) + snād (“morsel, bit; something cut off, detached land”).

A village and civil parish in Ashford district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR002393).


Monk Hesleden

A hamlet and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4537).


Alderton

en-proper noun

Alderton (countable and uncountable, plural Aldertons)

From Old English alor (“alder”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).

A village and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0033).

South Northamptonshire
South Northamptonshire#English

A small village and civil parish (without a council) in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, formerly in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP7446).

A village and civil parish in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, formerly in Suffolk Coastal district (OS grid ref TM3441).


Luckington

A village and civil parish (served by Luckington and Alderton Parish Council) in north-west Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8383).


Calver

Calver (countable and uncountable, plural Calvers)

From Old English calf (“calf”) + ōfer (“slope, ridge”).

A village and civil parish of Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK240745).


Docking

en-proper-noun

Docking (countable and uncountable, plural Dockings)

From Old English docce (“dock, a weedy plant”) + -ing.

der

A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF765370).


Ponsonby

en-proper noun

Ponsonby (countable and uncountable, plural Ponsonbys)

A hamlet and civil parish in Cumberland, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough (OS grid ref NY0505).


Pontesbury

A village and civil parish south-west of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3906).


Blisland

A village and civil parish north-east of Bodmin, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX1073).


Nuthurst

A village and civil parish in Horsham district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ1926).


Withiel

A small village and civil parish in central Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9965).


Lanivet

A village and civil parish south-west of Bodmin, Cornwall, England (OS grif ref SX0364).


St Breock

A small village and civil parish west of Wadebridge, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9771).


Brompton Regis

Recorded as Brunetone 1086 (Domesday Book), and Brompton Regis by 1291 (from Latin regis). Also occasionally called Kingsbrompton in the past, which virtually means the same as Brompton Regis.

A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref SS9531).


Little Wratting

A small village and civil parish (without a council) in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, formerly in St Edmundsbury district (OS grid ref TL6947).


Denstone

East Staffordshire
East Staffordshire#English

A village and civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0940).


Eythorne

A village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2849).


Kirby Bedon

Manorial affix from the de Bidun family of the 12th century.

A small village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2805).


Trowse with Newton

A civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England, just south of Norwich.


Strickland Ketel

A civil parish in South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England, served by Burneside Parish Council.


Itchen Valley

A civil parish in City of Winchester district, Hampshire, England.


Weston-on-the-Green

A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP5318).


Mainstone

A hamlet and civil parish (served by Mainstone with Colebatch Parish Council) in south-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO2787).


Colebatch

A hamlet and civil parish (served by Mainstone with Colebatch Parish Council) near Bishop's Castle, south-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3187).


Luxborough

A small village and civil parish in Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref SS9837).


Bridgerule

A village and civil parish in Torridge district, Devon, England, on the border with Cornwall (OS grid ref SS2702).


St Anne's on the Sea

A suburban town and civil parish with a town council in Lytham St Annes, Fylde borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3229).


Balderton

A large village and civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK8261).


Dodleston

A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3661).


Kesgrave

A town and civil parish with a town council in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, formerly in Suffolk Coastal district (OS grid ref TM2245).


Westhoughton

A town and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD6505).


Bexhill-on-Sea

A civil parish with a town council in Rother district, East Sussex, England, formed on 1 April 2021.


Wetwang

A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9359).


Booton

Booton (countable and uncountable, plural Bootons)

From the Old English personal name Bōta + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).

A village and civil parish in the Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG109228).


Stretham

East Cambridgeshire
East Cambridgeshire#English

A village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5174).


Sodbury

South Gloucestershire
South Gloucestershire#English

A civil parish with a town council in South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England.


Dufton

Dufton (countable and uncountable, plural Duftons)

From Old English *dūfe (“dove”) + tūn (“enclosure; town”).

A village and civil parish in Eden district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY6925).


Hartburn

From Old English heorot (“hart, stag”) + burna (“stream”).

A small village and civil parish west of Morpeth, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ0886).


Netherbury

From Old English niþera (“lower”) + byriġ (“fort”).

A village and civil parish between Beaminster and Bridport, west Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY4799).


Corsenside

A large civil parish in central Northumberland, England.


Bircham

Bircham (countable and uncountable, plural Birchams)

From Old English bierċe (“birch”) + hām (“homestead; village”).

A civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England.


Godmanchester

A town and civil parish with a town council in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL2470).


Levens

A village and civil parish in South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD4886).


Salthouse

Salthouse (countable and uncountable, plural Salthouses)

Salthouses (plural)
Salters (alternative)

From Old English salthous (“storehouse for salt”).

der

A village and civil parish of North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG075439).


Wenhaston with Mells Hamlet

A civil parish in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, formerly in Suffolk Coastal district.


Wymondley

A civil parish in North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England.


High Littleton

A village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6458).


Ston Easton

A village and civil parish in Mendip district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6253).


Chelwood

A small village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6361).


Clutton

en-proper noun

Clutton (countable and uncountable, plural Cluttons)

From Old English clūdiġ (“rocky, stony”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A village and civil parish (served by Coddington and District Parish Council) in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4654).

A village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6259).


Bosbury

A village and civil parish (served by Bosbury and Coddington Parish Council) in east Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO6943).


Preston Brook

A village and civil parish in Halton borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5680).


Murton

Murton (countable and uncountable, plural Murtons)

From Old English mōr (“moor, marsh, fen”) + tūn (“enclosure; town, settlement”).

Westmorland and Furness
Westmorland and Furness#English

A small village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7221).

A large village and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ3947).

A village and civil parish in City of York district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE6452).


Bredgar

A village and civil parish in Swale borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8860).


Wormshill

A small village and civil parish (without a council) in Maidstone borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8857).


Porlock

From Old English Portloc, from port + loca, literally “harbour enclosure”.

com

A coastal village and civil parish in Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref SS8846).


Bladon

West Oxfordshire
West Oxfordshire#English

A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4515).


Wilmcote

A village and civil parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP1658).


Hamble-le-Rice

A village and civil parish in Eastleigh borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4806).


Flamborough

East Riding of Yorkshire
East Riding of Yorkshire#English

A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA2270).


Adderstone with Lucker

A civil parish in northern Northumberland, England.


Wymington

From the Old English personal name Wīdmund, a compound of wīd (“wide”) and mund (“security, protection”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A village and civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England, on the border with Northamptonshire (OS grid ref SP9564).


Harlaston

A village and civil parish in Lichfield district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK2110).


Blaxhall

en-proper-noun

Blaxhall (countable and uncountable, plural Blaxhalls)

Blaxhalls (plural)
Blaxell (alternative)
Blaxill (alternative)

From the Old English personal name Blæc + -s- + healh (“corner, nook, angle”).

A village and civil parish of East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM366195).


Horninglow and Eton

A civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England.


Outwoods

Burton upon Trent
Burton upon Trent#English

A civil parish near Burton upon Trent, East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England.


Gnosall

A village and civil parish in Stafford borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8321).


Tealby

A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1590).


Speldhurst

A village and civil parish in Tunbridge Wells borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ5541).


Cottenham

South Cambridgeshire
South Cambridgeshire#English

A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4567).


Slimbridge

A village and civil parish in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7303).


Wakerley

North Northamptonshire
North Northamptonshire#English

East Northamptonshire
East Northamptonshire#English

A small village and civil parish (without a council) in North Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, formerly in East Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP9599).


Cheswardine

A village and civil parish in north-east Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7129).


Caldecott

en-proper noun

Caldecott (countable and uncountable, plural Caldecotts)

Caldecotts (plural)
Callcott (alternative)

From Old English cald (“cold”) + cot (“cottage”), denoting a place provided with a shelter for the wintertime. Compare Caldecote and Calcott, which share the same etymology.

A village and civil parish in Rutland, England (OS grid ref SP8693).


Chelveston cum Caldecott

A civil parish in North Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, formerly in East Northamptonshire district.


Montacute

en-proper-noun

Montacute (countable and uncountable, plural Montacutes)

Latinized from Montagu, from Old French mont (“mountain”) + aigu (“sharp”). Alternatively from Latin mons acutus.

The name Montacute derives from the Latin mons acutus, meaning 'steep hill'.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 287:

A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4916).


Bishop Wilton

A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7955).


Highwood

A hamlet and civil parish in Chelmsford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL6404).


Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley

A civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire, England.


Kirby Cane

A village and civil parish (served by Kirby Cane and Ellingham Parish Council) in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM3792).


Sedbergh

A small town and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD6592).


Kirkby Lonsdale

A town and civil parish with a town council in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD6178).


Barbon

A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD6282).


Beetham

en-proper noun

Beetham (countable and uncountable, plural Beethams)

Probably from Old Norse bjothum, dative plural form of beth (“embankment”).

An almost 19th-century atmosphere has returned to Beetham since the M6 motorway drew away the traffic which used to roar along its main street.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd., page 53:

A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD4979).


Aldington

Aldington (countable and uncountable, plural Aldingtons)

From the Old English personal name Ealda + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A village and civil parish (served by Aldington and Bonnington Parish Council) in Ashford district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR063365).

A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP064440).


Madresfield

Possibly from Old English mōdor (“mother”) + -s- + feld (“field”).

A village and civil parish in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO804473).


Coulton

Coulton (countable and uncountable, plural Coultons)

Probably from Old English col (“coal”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A village and civil parish (served by Gilling East with Cawton, Coulton and Grimston Parish Council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Ryedale district (OS grid ref SE634567).


Radclive-cum-Chackmore

A civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, north and west of Buckingham.


Chudleigh

Chudleigh (countable and uncountable, plural Chudleighs)

A town and civil parish with a town council in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX8679).


Swynnerton

en-proper-noun

Swynnerton (countable and uncountable, plural Swynnertons)

Swynnertons (plural)
Swinnerton (alternative)
Swinerton (alternative)

From either:
# Old English swīn (“swine, pig”) + ford + tūn, 'the settlement at Swinford, the swine ford'.
# Old English swille (“a sloppy or liquid mess”) + ford + tūn, 'the settlement at Swilford, the dirty ford'.
# Old English swan or swān (“herdsman”) + ford + tūn, 'the settlement at Swanford, the herdsmen's or swan's ford'.
# Old English sumor (“summer”) + ford + tūn, 'the settlement at Somerford, the summer ford'.

der

A village and civil parish in Stafford district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8535).


Fritton and St Olaves

A civil parish in Great Yarmouth borough, Norfolk, England.


Morningthorpe and Fritton

A civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England.


Ludham

A village and civil parish in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG3818).


Burgh Castle

A village and civil parish in Great Yarmouth borough, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG4805).


Aldeby

A village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM4593).


Torksey

A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8378).


Bewick

en-proper noun

Bewick (countable and uncountable, plural Bewicks)

From Old English beo (“bee”) + wīc (“village; farm”), hence a farm for the production of honey.

A civil parish in Northumberland, England, which includes the villages of Old and New Bewick.


Ellerton

Ellerton (countable and uncountable, plural Ellertons)

The name of the village in the East Riding of Yorkshire derives from the Old English personal name Æþelheard + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), while the hamlet in Shropshire is from Old English alor (“alder”) + tūn.

A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE704398).


Farthinghoe

A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, formerly in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP5339).


Water Stratford

A small village and civil parish (without a council) in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6534).


Mixbury

A village and civil parish (without a council) in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP6033).


Owston

Owston (countable and uncountable, plural Owstons)

From Old English ēast (“east”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE549011).


Sandford-on-Thames

South Oxfordshire
South Oxfordshire#English

A village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP5301).


Wraxall

en-proper-noun

Wraxall (countable and uncountable, plural Wraxalls)

From a lost Old English word *wrocc (“buzzard”), perhaps used as a personal name, + -s- + healh (“corner, angle, nook”). Compare the doublet Wroxall.


Enstone

Enstone (countable and uncountable, plural Enstones)

From the Old English personal name Enna + stān (“stone”), from a standing stone which was part of ancient neolithic tomb.

A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP3724).


London Colney

The 'London' element was from its position on the road to London; Colney is from the River Colne + Old English ea or eg.

A large village and civil parish in the City of St Albans district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1704).


East Tisted

A village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7032).


Lustleigh

A village and civil parish in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX7881).


Chagford

A market town and civil parish in West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX7087).


Barcombe

A small village and civil parish in Lewes district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ4214).


Banham

en-proper noun

Banham (countable and uncountable, plural Banhams)

From Old English bēan (“bean”) + hām (“homestead”).

A village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM065880).


Hartshorne

Hartshorne (countable and uncountable, plural Hartshornes)

From Old English heorot (“stag”) + -s- + horn (“horn”).

South Derbyshire
South Derbyshire#English

A village and civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK320213).


Brokenborough

Brokenborough (countable and uncountable, plural Brokenboroughs)

Brokenboroughs (plural)
Brokenbrow (alternative)

From Old English brocen (“broken; uneven”) + beorg (“mountain, hill”).

A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST918892).


Pakenham

Pakenham (countable and uncountable, plural Pakenhams)

Pakenhams (plural)
Peckenham (alternative)

From the Old English personal name Pacca + hām (“homestead”).

A village and civil parish in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL924673).


Margaretting

A village and civil parish in the City of Chelmsford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL6701).


Cornforth

Cornforth (countable and uncountable, plural Cornforths)

From a metathesized form of Old English cran (“crane”) + ford (“ford”).

A village and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ313343).


Castle Gresley

A village and civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2718).


Cleeve

en-prop

Cleeve (countable and uncountable, plural Cleeves)

A village and civil parish in North Somerset, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4666).


Bygrave

en-proper noun

Bygrave (countable and uncountable, plural Bygraves)

From Old English bī (“by, near, around”) + græf (“ditch, trench”).

North Hertfordshire
North Hertfordshire#English

A village and civil parish of North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL258873).


Nidd

From Old English Nid, from Proto-West Germanic *Nǐd, from Proto-Germanic *Nidā, from Proto-Indo-European *neid-/*nid- (“flow”).

A small village and civil parish in Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire; the parish borders the river (OS grid ref SE3059).


Flaxby

A small village and civil parish (served by Goldsborough and Flaxby Parish Council) in Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3957).


Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton

A civil parish (without a council) in Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire, England.


Unstone

From the unattested Old English personal name *Ōn or *Ōna + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

North East Derbyshire
North East Derbyshire#English

A village and civil parish in North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3777).


Chelford

A village and civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8174).


Hessay

A village and civil parish in City of York district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5253).


Moor Monkton

A village and civil parish in Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5056).


Wilstrop

A civil parish (served by Tockwith with Wilstrop Parish Council) and site of a medieval village in Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4855).


Tockwith

A village and civil parish (served by Tockwith with Wilstrop Parish Council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Harrogate borough (OS grid ref SE4652).


Boroughbridge

A town and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Harrogate borough (OS grid ref SE3966).


Brafferton

A village and civil parish (without a council) in Darlington borough, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ2921).


Tresmeer

A small village and civil parish in north-east Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX2387).


Skipwith

Skipwith (countable and uncountable, plural Skipwiths)

Recorded as Schipwic in the Domesday Book, from Old English sċēap (“sheep”) + wīc (“outlying settlement”). The last element was later changed under the influence of Old Norse viðr (“tree; forest, wood”).

A village and civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE6638).


Scargill

en-proper-noun

Scargill (countable and uncountable, plural Scargills)

Recorded as Scracreghil in the Domesday Book, from Old Norse skraki (“diving duck”) + gil (“valley, ravine”).

A hamlet and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ050106).


Scotter

en-prop

Scotter (countable and uncountable, plural Scotters)

A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England; not to be confused with Scotton, just to the south (OS grid ref SE8800).


Raynham

A civil parish in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England.


Elworthy

en-proper noun

Elworthy (countable and uncountable, plural Elworthys)

From the Old English personal name Ylla + worþig (“estate, enclosure”).

Somerset West and Taunton
Somerset West and Taunton#English

A village and civil parish in Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST083349).


Selling

en-prop

Selling (countable and uncountable, plural Sellings)

A village and civil parish in Swale borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR0456).


Ault Hucknall

A civil parish and small village (or hamlet) in Bolsover district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4665).


Pleasley

A village and civil parish in Bolsover district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK5064).


Draycott in the Moors

Staffordshire Moorlands
Staffordshire Moorlands#English

A village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9740).


Glapwell

A village and civil parish in Bolsover district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4765).


Scarcliffe

A village and civil parish in Bolsover district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4968).


Playden

en-proper-noun

Playden (countable and uncountable, plural Playdens)

From Old English plega (“game”) + dene (“valley”).

A village and civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ955226).


Stanion

Stanion (countable and uncountable, plural Stanions)

Stanions (plural)
Stanyan (alternative)
Stanyon (alternative)

Recorder as Stanere in the Domesday Book and as Stanerna in the Pipe rolls, the placename probably derives from Old English stān (“stone”) + earn (“house, cottage”).

A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP9186).


Woolavington

A village and civil parish in Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3441).


Acklam

Acklam (countable and uncountable, plural Acklams)

From Old English āc (“oak”) + leum (“clearing”).

A village and civil parish in Ryedale district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE784617).


Hillington

King's Lynn and West Norfolk
King's Lynn and West Norfolk#English

A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF718255).


Wonersh

A village and civil parish in Waverley borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ0145).


Brookthorpe-with-Whaddon

A civil parish in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England.


Whaddon

A village and civil parish outside Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP8034).

A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL3546).


Hilperton

A village and civil parish near Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8759).


Alderbury

A village and civil parish south-east of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1827).


East Hardwick

A village and civil parish in Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE462061).


Sawtry

A large village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL1683).


Greenham

From Old English grēne (“green”) + hamm (“river meadow”).

A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU4865).


Stawley

A small village and civil parish in Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST0622).


Downley

en-proper noun

Downley (countable and uncountable, plural Downleys)

From Old English dūn (“hill, mountain”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to dune or down + -ley (“lea”).

A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Wycombe district (OS grid ref SU8595).


Feock

A coastal village and civil parish south of Truro, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8238).


Pitminster

A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST2219).


Tovil

A suburban area and civil parish in Maidstone borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7554).


Measham

Measham (countable and uncountable, plural Meashams)

From the name of the River Mease + Old English hām (“homestead”).

North West Leicestershire
North West Leicestershire#English

A large village and civil parish in North West Leicestershire district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK3312).


Horton Kirby and South Darenth

A civil parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent, England.


Toller Porcorum

Toller refers to the River Toller, since renamed the River Hooke, although there still is the Toller Brook, which joins the Hooke at the village. Porcorum is from Latin porcorum (“of the pigs”).

A village and civil parish in west Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY5698).


Okehampton Hamlets

A civil parish in West Devon district, Devon, England, which surrounds Okehampton civil parish.


Brookland

en-proper-noun

Brookland (countable and uncountable, plural Brooklands)

From Old English brōc (“brook, stream”) + land (“land”).

Folkestone and Hythe
Folkestone and Hythe#English

A village and civil parish in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ990259).


Langcliffe

A village and civil parish in Craven district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD8265).


Tintwistle

Every day AND night thousands of tonnes of road freight navigates along the A628 Woodhead Pass. It doesn't require exact statistics to understand that the A628 situation is chronic at the best of times, especially for Tintwistle residents and closure of the pass in winter.

2021 November 17, “Open Access: Hope for Woodhead”, in RAIL, number 944, page 64:

A village and civil parish in High Peak borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK0297).


Crathorne

Crathorne (countable and uncountable, plural Crathornes)

Crathornes (plural)
Craythorn (alternative)
Craythorne (alternative)

From Middle English crak (“crake”) + thorne (“thorn”).

A village and civil parish in Hambleton district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ443030).


Monxton

A village and civil parish in Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3144).


Netherseal

A village and civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2813).


Weobley

Weobley (countable and uncountable, plural Weobleys)

From the Old English personal name Weobba + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

A village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO402865).


Shenstone

en-prop

Shenstone (countable and uncountable, plural Shenstones)

A village and civil parish in Lichfield district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1004).


Lastingham

A small village and civil parish (without a council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Ryedale district (OS grid ref SE7390).


Sinnington

A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Ryedale district (OS grid ref SE7485).


Brickhill

en-proper-noun

Brickhill (countable and uncountable, plural Brickhills)

Brickhills (plural)
Brickell (alternative)

From Breton breg (“hill”) + Old English hyll (“hill”).

A civil parish and suburban area in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL053521).


Ecclesfield

A village and civil parish in the City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3594).


Grimoldby

en-proper noun

Grimoldby (countable and uncountable, plural Grimoldbys)

From the Old Norse personal name Grimaldi + býr (“farmstead”).

A village and civil parish (served by Grimoldby and Manby Parish Council) in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3988).


Manby

Manby (countable and uncountable, plural Manbys)

From the Old Norse personal name Manni + býr (“farmstead; town”).

A village and civil parish (served by Grimoldby and Manby Parish Council) in, and the administrative centre of East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3987).


Thirlby

en-proper-noun

Thirlby (countable and uncountable, plural Thirlbys)

From the Old Norse personal name Þrilli or Þrylli + býr (“village, settlement”).

A village and civil parish in Hambleton district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE485839).


Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp

A civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England.


Hedon

A town and civil parish with a town council in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA1828).


Sparham

en-proper noun

Sparham (countable and uncountable, plural Sparhams)

From either the Old English personal name Spearr or Old Norse sparri (“wooden beam, rafter”) + Old English hām (“homestead”).

der

A village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG0719).


Wye with Hinxhill

A civil parish in Ashford borough, Kent, England.


Bramham cum Oglethorpe

A civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.


Thorpe Market

A small village and civil parish in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2436).


Avebury

Entering Avebury from any direction is like stepping back into the past. Before the centre of the village is reached, the road passes through an immense circle of brooding stones which stand like petrified ghosts of an age about which little is known.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 40:

A village and civil parish west of Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, location of a prehistoric stone circle (OS grid ref SU1069).


Reydon

A village and civil parish in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in Waveney district (OS grid ref TM5077).


Chetwode

en-proper-noun

Chetwode (countable and uncountable, plural Chetwodes)

Chetwodes (plural)
Chatwood (alternative)
Cheatwood (alternative)
Chitwood (alternative)

From an unclear first element + Old English wudu (“wood”).

A village and civil parish of Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP6429).


Sandhoe

A hamlet and civil parish in south Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY9766).


Acomb

A village and civil parish in south Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY9366).


Beeby

en-proper noun

Beeby (countable and uncountable, plural Beebys)

Beebys (plural)
Beebe (alternative)
Beebee (alternative)

From Old English bēo (“bee”) + Old Norse býr (“farmstead”).

A village and civil parish in Charnwood district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK662640).


Hentland

A hamlet and civil parish (served by Ballingham, Bolstone and Hentland Group Parish Council) in south Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5426).


Ballingham

A small village and civil parish (served by Ballingham, Bolstone and Hentland Group Parish Council) in south Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5731).


Bolstone

A hamlet and civil parish (served by Ballingham, Bolstone and Hentland Group Parish Council) in south Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5532).


Melverley

A small village and civil parish in west Shropshire, England, on the border with Powys, Wales (Rivers Severn and Vyrnwy) (OS grid ref SJ3316).


Fimber

A small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE8960).


Woolsington

Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne#English

A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ1969).


Brundish

en-proper-noun

Brundish (countable and uncountable, plural Brundishes)

Brundishes (plural)
Brundage (alternative)

From Old English burna (“stream”) + edisċ (“eddish; pasture”).

A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM268766).


Framingham Pigot

A small village and civil parish (without a council) in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2703).


Wetton

en-proper noun

Wetton (countable and uncountable, plural Wettons)

Recorded as Wetindona in a 13ᵗʰ century Charter, from Old English wǣt (“wet”) + dūn (“hill”).

A small village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1055).


Ecton

Ecton (countable and uncountable, plural Ectons)

From the Old English personal name Ecca + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, east of Northampton, and previously in Wellingborough district (OS grid ref SP8263).


Fotheringhay

From Old English fōdring (“grazing”) + īeġ (“island; low-lying land”).

A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in East Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref TL0593).


Tangmere

From Old English tange (“tongs, fangs”) + mere (“lake, pool”).

A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU905065).


Leintwardine

A village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO404741).


Saintbury

Recorded in the 12ᵗʰ century as Seynesbury, from the Old English personal name Sǣwine + byriġ (“fortified place”).

A village and civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP116543).


Cold Ashton

South Gloucestershire
South Gloucestershire#English

A village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST7472).


Butterwick

Butterwick (countable and uncountable, plural Butterwicks)

Butterwicks (plural)
Buttrick (alternative)

From Old English butere (“butter”) + wīċ (“village”).

A village and civil parish in Boston district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF387448).


Longstanton

A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3966).


Wimblington

From the Old English personal name Wimbel, which might be a pet form of Wynnbeald, + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A village and civil parish (served by Wimblington and Stonea Parish Council) in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF4192).


Swavesey

From Old English Swǣf (“Swabian”) + -s- + hȳþ (“landing-place”).

A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3668).


Knotting and Souldrop

A civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England.


Clatworthy

Clatworthy (countable and uncountable, plural Clatworthys)

From Old English clāte (“burdock, clotbur”) + worþig (“piece of land, estate”).

A small village and civil parish in Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST0530).


Themelthorpe

A hamlet and civil parish (without a council) in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG0524).


Hope Woodlands

A civil parish (served by Derwent and Hope Woodlands Parish Council) in High Peak borough, Derbyshire, England.


Thaxted

A small town and civil parish in Uttlesford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL6131).


Great Bardfield

A village and civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL6730).


Bainton

Bainton (countable and uncountable, plural Baintons)

Various origins:
* The village in the East Riding of Yorkshire was recorded as Bagentone in the Domesday Book, suggesting a derivation from the Old English personal name Bǣga + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
* The hamlet in Oxfordshire was recorded as Baditone in the Domesday Book, suggesting a derivation from the Old English personal name Bada + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A village and civil parish (served by Bainton and Ashton Parish Council) in the City of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF0906).

A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9652).


Stoke Lyne

A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP5628).


Frating

A small village and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM0822).


Chelmsley Wood

A suburban area and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1886)


Hedge End

A town and civil parish with a town council in Eastleigh borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4912).


Winterborne Stickland

Winterborne is a variant of Winterbourne, Stickland comes from Old English sticol (“steep”); a number of villages and parishes in Dorset have Winterborne in their name.

A village and civil parish in north Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST8304).


Stebbing

Stebbing (countable and uncountable, plural Stebbings)

From the Old English personal name *Stybba + -ing (“belonging to”).

A village and civil parish in Uttlesford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL677203).


Burntwood

A town and civil parish with a town council in Lichfield district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0509).


All Cannings

Recorded as Caninge 1086 (DB), Aldekanning in 1205; from Old English eald (“old”), Cannings is from the family or followers of Cana + -ingas.

A village and civil parish east of Devizes, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0761).


Mayfield and Five Ashes

A civil parish in Wealden district, East Sussex, England.


Marwood

en-proper-noun

Marwood (countable and uncountable, plural Marwoods)

From Old English ġemære (“border, limit”) + wudu (“wood”).

A civil parish of County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ053972).


Ashford Hill with Headley

Basingstoke and Deane
Basingstoke and Deane#English

A civil parish in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England, on the border with Berkshire.


Ebrington

A village and civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP1840).


Selwood

en-proper noun

Selwood (countable and uncountable, plural Selwoods)

Selwoods (plural)
Sellwood (alternative)

From Old English sealh (“willow”) + wudu (“wood”).

A civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST787486).


Theakston

Theakston (countable and uncountable, plural Theakstons)

Theakstons (plural)
Thaxton (alternative)

From the Old English personal name Þeodes + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A village and civil parish in Hambleton district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE450959).


Stoke Bruerne

West Northamptonshire
West Northamptonshire#English

South Northamptonshire
South Northamptonshire#English

A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP7449).


Marsworth

A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP9214).


Hardingstone

A suburban village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Northampton borough (OS grid ref SP7657).


Duston

A suburb and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Northampton borough (OS grid ref SP7261).


Redbourn

A village and civil parish in City of St Albans district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1012).


Markington with Wallerthwaite

A civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Harrogate district.


Coldridge

A village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS6907).


Cherry Burton

East Riding of Yorkshire
East Riding of Yorkshire#English

A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9942).


Etton

Etton (countable and uncountable, plural Ettons)

From the Old English personal name Ēata + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF1406).

A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9843).


Dalton Holme

A civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.


Breedon on the Hill

The great age of the village is apparent even in the tautology of its name. Bre means 'hill' in the Celtic tongue of the pre-Roman Britons, dun means the same thing in Anglo-Saxon, Hill hill-on-the-Hill, in fact.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 87, Breedon on the Hill:

A village and civil parish in North West Leicestershire district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK4022).


Goodmanham

A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE8943).


Ailsworth

Ailsworth (countable and uncountable, plural Ailsworths)

Ailsworths (plural)
Aylesworth (alternative)
Aylsworth (alternative)

From the Old English personal name Ægel + -s- + worþ (“enclosure”).

A village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL124985).


Nunburnholme

A village and civil parish (served by Nunburnholme with Kilnwick Percy Parish Council) in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE8548).


Fangfoss

A village and civil parish (served by Fangfoss with Bolton Parish Council) in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7653).


Warthill

A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Ryedale district (OS grid ref SE6755).


Heptonstall

en-proper-noun

Heptonstall (countable and uncountable, plural Heptonstalls)

Heptonstalls (plural)
Heppenstall (alternative)

From Old English hēope (“rosehip”) or hēopa (“dog-rose, bramble”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”) + steall (“stable”).

A village and civil parish in Calderdale district, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD988279).


Waltham St Lawrence

Windsor and Maidenhead
Windsor and Maidenhead#English

A village and civil parish in Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8276).


Graveley

en-proper noun

Graveley (countable and uncountable, plural Graveleys)

Graveleys (plural)
Gravely (alternative)

From either Old English græf (“pit, trench”) or grāf (“grove, thicket”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL2464).

A village and civil parish in North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL232278).


Westow

"The women's meeting place", from Old English wīf (“woman”), genitive plural wīfa + stōw (“place”).

A village and civil parish in Ryedale district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7565).


Eynsham

West Oxfordshire
West Oxfordshire#English

A large village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4309).


Fiskerton

A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0572).


Fiskerton cum Morton

Newark and Sherwood
Newark and Sherwood#English

A civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England.


Scrayingham

A small village and civil parish in Ryedale district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7360).


Charndon

A hamlet and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6724).


Great and Little Kimble cum Marsh

Princes Risborough
Princes Risborough#English

A civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, between Princes Risborough and Aylesbury.


Severn Stoke

The parish is bounded by the River Severn on its west side.

A village and civil parish (served by Severn Stoke and Croome D'Abitot Parish Council) in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO857441).


Farnhill

en-proper-noun

Farnhill (countable and uncountable, plural Farnhills)

From Old English fearn (“fern”) + hyll (“hill”).

A village and civil parish in Craven district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE005465).


Offley

en-proper noun

Offley (countable and uncountable, plural Offleys)

From the Old English personal name Offa + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

North Hertfordshire
North Hertfordshire#English

A civil parish in North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL148262).


Shilbottle

A village and civil parish in east Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU1908).


Berryfields

A modern housing development and civil parish (created 2015) north-west of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP7815).


Malham

en-proper-noun

Malham (countable and uncountable, plural Malhams)

Recorded as Malgun in the Domesday Book, the placename probably derives from Old Norse malg or maligr (“gravelly soil, sandbank”).

A village and civil parish (served by Kirkby Malhamdale Parish Council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SD900629).


Barnston

en-proper noun

Barnston (countable and uncountable, plural Barnstons)

From the Old English personal name Beorna + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A village and civil parish in Uttlesford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL6419).


Ellesborough

Recorded as Esenberge in the Domesday Book, the placename derives from Old English esol (“ass, donkey”) + beorg (“hill”), denoting a place where asses were pastured.

A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8306).


Warborough

From Old English weard (“guard”) + beorg (“hill”).

South Oxfordshire
South Oxfordshire#English

A village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU5993).


Withyham

A civil parish and small village in Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ4935).


Lower Withington

A village and civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8169).


Lissington

en-proper-noun

Lissington (countable and uncountable, plural Lissingtons)

Lissingtons (plural)
Lissenden (alternative)

From the Old English personal name Lissa + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A village and civil parish of West Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF108833).


Holkham

Holkham (countable and uncountable, plural Holkhams)

Perhaps from Old English holh (“hollow”) + hām (“homestead”).

A village and civil parish in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF892438).


Garthorpe

A small village and civil parish (served by Garthorpe and Coston Parish Council) in Melton borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK8321).


East Goscote

A village and civil parish in Charnwood borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK6413).


Monkton

Monkton (countable and uncountable, plural Monktons)

From Old English munuc (“monk”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A village and civil parish in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST186710).

A village and civil parish in Thanet district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR286649).


Little Compton

A village and civil parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2630).


Bilbrough

en-proper noun

Bilbrough (countable and uncountable, plural Bilbroughs)

Bilbroughs (plural)
Bilbro (alternative)

From the Old English personal name Bila or Billa + burg (“stronghold, fortress”).

A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district (OS grid ref SE531465).


Chilmark

From Old English Chilmerc, from *cigel (“peg, pole”) + mearc (“boundary, mark”).

A village and civil parish in south-west Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9732).


Newent

A small town and civil parish with a town council in Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7225).


Ellerby

Ellerby (countable and uncountable, plural Ellerbys)

Ellerbys (plural)
Ellerbee (alternative)

From the Old English personal name Ælfweard, which is composed of the elements ælf (“elf”) and weard (“guard”), + Old Norse býr (“farmstead; settlement”).

A civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA162389).

A village and civil parish in Scarborough district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ799146).


Wroughton

en-proper-noun

Wroughton (countable and uncountable, plural Wroughtons)

Perhaps from Old Norse hverfr (“shifty, changeable”), referring to a local river, + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

der

A village and civil parish in Swindon district, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1480).


Oakamoor

A small village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0544).


Hexhamshire

From Middle English Hexhamschire; equivalent to Hexham + -shire.

A civil parish in Northumberland, England, to the south of Hexham.


Ousby

Westmorland and Furness
Westmorland and Furness#English

A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY6234).


Church Knowle

A village and civil parish in Dorset, England, previously in Purbeck district (OS grid ref SY9481).


North Petherton

A small town and civil parish with a town council in Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST2933).


Clunbury

A village and civil parish in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO371805).


Whitcombe

en-proper noun

Whitcombe (countable and uncountable, plural Whitcombes)

Whitcombes (plural)
Whitcomb (alternative)

From either Old English wīd (“wide”) or hwīt (“white”) + cumb (“combe, valley”).

A village and civil parish in Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY717882).


Nafferton

A village and civil parish east of Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA0559).


Hutton Cranswick

A village and civil parish south of Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA0252).


Groby

Groby (countable and uncountable, plural Grobys)

Perhaps from Old Norse gróf (“pit, hollow, gully”) + býr (“farmstead”).

Hinckley and Bosworth
Hinckley and Bosworth#English

A village and civil parish in Hinckley and Bosworth district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5207).


Brierfield

A town and civil parish with a town council in Pendle borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD8436).


Hapton

A village and civil parish in Burnley borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7931).


Tharston and Hapton

A civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England.


Mortehoe

A village and civil parish in North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS4545).


Orford

Orford (countable and uncountable, plural Orfords)

From Old English ōra (“bank, shore”) + ford (“ford”).

A village and civil parish in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM422499).


Lower Beeding

A village and civil parish in Horsham district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ2227).


Saltfleetby

Saltfleetby All Saints
Saltfleetby All Saints#English

Saltfleetby St Clement
Saltfleetby St Clement#English

Saltfleetby St Peter
Saltfleetby St Peter#English

A civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England, with three widely spaced settlements: Saltfleetby All Saints, Saltfleetby St Clement and Saltfleetby St Peter.


Theddlethorpe All Saints

A village and civil parish (served by Theddlethorpe All Saints and St Helens Parish Council) in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF4688).


Theddlethorpe St Helen

A village and civil parish (served by Theddlethorpe All Saints and St Helens Parish Council) in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF4788).


Cawston

en-proper-noun

Cawston (countable and uncountable, plural Cawstons)

Recorded as Caustune in the Domesday Book, it probably derives from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Kalfr + -s- + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A village and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG136312).

A village and civil parish in Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4773).


Balsham

South Cambridgeshire
South Cambridgeshire#English

A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5850).


Westley Waterless

Recorded as Westle c.1045, Weslai 1086 (DB), and Westle Waterles 1285, the affix being from Old English wæter + lēas (“wet clearings”)

der

East Cambridgeshire
East Cambridgeshire#English

A small village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL6256).


Sparsholt

A village and civil parish in City of Winchester district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4331).

Vale of White Horse
Vale of White Horse#English

A village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU3487).


Swettenham

en-proper-noun

Swettenham (countable and uncountable, plural Swettenhams)

Swettenhams (plural)
Sweetnam (alternative)
Swetenham (alternative)
Swetnam (alternative)

From the genitive form of the Old English personal name Sweta + hām (“homestead”) or hamm (“water meadow”).

A village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ800671).


Cox Green

A civil parish and suburb of Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8679).


Ewhurst

A civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ7924).

A village and civil parish (served by Ewhurst with Ellens Green Parish Council) in Waverley borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ0940).


Langford Budville

Somerset West and Taunton
Somerset West and Taunton#English

A village and civil parish in Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST111229).


Baughurst

From either the Old English personal name Beagga or bagga (“badger”) + hyrst (“wooded hill”).

Basingstoke and Deane
Basingstoke and Deane#English

A village and civil parish in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU5861).


Southill

Central Bedfordshire
Central Bedfordshire#English

A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1542).


Broughton Astley

Manorial affix from the de Estle family of the 13th century.

A large village and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5392).


Countesthorpe

A large village and civil parish in Blaby district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5895).


East Huntspill

A village and civil parish in Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3445).


Kelston

Bath and North East Somerset
Bath and North East Somerset#English

A small village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7067).


Outwood

A village and civil parish in Tandridge district, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ3245).


Chaddesley Corbett

Recorded as Ceadresleahge in 816, Cedeslai in 1086 (DB), with manorial affix from the Corbet family of the 12th century.

A village and civil parish in Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8973).


Wixams

A new town and civil parish (created 2015) in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0544).


Stalham

A market town and civil parish with a town council in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG3725).


Whittle-le-Woods

A village and civil parish in Chorley borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5821).


West Monkton

A village and civil parish in Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST2628).


North Hill

A village and civil parish in east Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX2776).


Brearton

en-proper noun

Brearton (countable and uncountable, plural Breartons)

From Old English brǣr (“briar”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A village and civil parish in Harrogate district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE322610).


Fulbourn

A large village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5156).


The Stukeleys

A civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England, which includes the villages of Great Stukeley and Little Stukeley north-west of Huntingdon.


Colmworth

From the Old English personal name Culma + worþ (“enclosure”).

A village and civil parish in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL106585).


Veryan

A village and civil parish on the south side of Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9139).


Normanby

"Village of the Norwegians", from Old Norse Norðmanna, genitive plural of Norðmaðr (“Norseman”) + býr (“village”).

A village and civil parish (without a council) in Ryedale district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7381).


Burton upon Stather

"Stather" is from an old Danish word for a landing stage (on the River Trent); compare with staith.

North Lincolnshire
North Lincolnshire#English

A village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SE8717).


Rotherfield

'Open land of the cattle', from Middle English Ridrefelda, from Old English Hrȳþeranfelda, from hrēþer (“cattle”), genitive plural hrȳþera + feld (“field”).

A village and civil parish in Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ5529).


Charlton Marshall

Recorded as Cerletone 1086 (DB), and Cherleton Marescal in 1288, with the manorial affix from the Marescal, Mareschal, or Marshall family.

A village and civil parish in north Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST9003).


Little Chesterford

A small village and civil parish in Uttlesford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL5141).


Staploe

From Old English stapol (“pillar, column; post”) + hōh (“spur of land”).

der

A village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL140685).


Duloe

Anglicized form of Cornish Dewlogh, from dew (“two”) + logh (“inlet; lake”).

A village and civil parish in Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX233586).


Monkton Combe

A village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7762).


Wortwell

A village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England, on the border with Suffolk (OS grid ref TM2785).


Hardingham

A village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG0403).


Great Barford

A village and civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL126545).


Ravensden

From the Old English personal name Hræfn, a byname from hræfn (“raven”), + -s- + denu (“valley”).

A village and civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL078544).


Renhold

A village and civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL089325).


Frampton Cotterell

Recorded as Frantone 1086 (DB) and Frampton Cotell 1257, with manorial affix from the Cotel family of the 12th century.

South Gloucestershire
South Gloucestershire#English

A large village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6681).


King's Cliffe

North Northamptonshire
North Northamptonshire#English

East Northamptonshire
East Northamptonshire#English

A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in East Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref TL0097).


Aldenham

A small village and civil parish in Hertsmere district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TQ1398).


Shortstown

From Short + -s- + town, named after the Short Brothers factory.

A village and civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0746).


Great Harrowden

A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Wellingborough district (OS grid ref SP8870).


Little Harrowden

A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Wellingborough district (OS grid ref SP8771).


West Hoathly

A village and civil parish in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3632).


Thornton Curtis

A village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA0817).

Thornton Abbey
Thornton Abbey railway station


Sundridge with Ide Hill

A civil parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent, England.


Roxton

en-proper-noun

Roxton (countable and uncountable, plural Roxtons)

Recorded as Rochesdone in the Domesday Book, the English village is named with the Old English personal name Hrōc, a byname from hrōc (“rook”), + -s- + dūn (“hill”).

A village and civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL154955).


Thistleton

Thistleton (countable and uncountable, plural Thistletons)

From Old English þistel (“thistle”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A village and civil parish in Rutland, England (OS grid ref SK913180).


Midgeholme

A hamlet and civil parish in city of Carlisle district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY6458).


Carham

A small village and civil parish in north Northumberland, England, on the border with Scotland (OS grid ref NT7938).


Greenhalgh-with-Thistleton

A civil parish in Fylde district, Lancashire, England.


Whitstone

en-proper noun

Whitstone (countable and uncountable, plural Whitstones)

From Old English hwīt (“white”) + stān (“stone”).

A village and civil parish in north-east Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX2698).


Healeyfield

A hamlet and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ0648).


Simonswood

A civil parish and locality in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England, just east of Kirkby, Merseyside (OS grid ref SD4200).


Risinghurst and Sandhills

A civil parish in the City of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.


Scarisbrick

Scarisbrick (countable and uncountable, plural Scarisbricks)

From the Old Norse personal name Skari + -es (“possessive suffix”) + brekka (“slope”).

A village and civil parish in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3713).


Maplebeck

en-proper-noun

Maplebeck (countable and uncountable, plural Maplebecks)

Maplebecks (plural)
Mapplebeck (alternative)

From Old English *mapul (“maple”) + Old Norse bekkr (“brook, stream”).

Newark and Sherwood
Newark and Sherwood#English

A village and civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK710607).


Woodhall Spa

A town, a civil parish and former spa in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1963).


Foulsham

en-proper noun

Foulsham (countable and uncountable, plural Foulshams)

Foulshams (plural)
Folsom (alternative)
Folson (alternative)
Fulgham (alternative)
Fulghum (alternative)

From Old English fugol (“bird”) + -s- + hām (“homestead”) or hamm (“water meadow”).

A village and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG0324).


Shermanbury

A village and civil parish in Horsham district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ2019).


Mereworth

Tonbridge and Malling
Tonbridge and Malling#English

A village and civil parish in Tonbridge and Malling borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ6553).


Norwell

Norwell (countable and uncountable, plural Norwells)

From Old English norþ (“north”) + welle (“well, spring”).

A village and civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7761).


Methwold

King's Lynn and West Norfolk
King's Lynn and West Norfolk#English

A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TL7394).


Feltwell

A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TL7190).


West Dereham

A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF6601).


Ryston

A civil parish (without a council) in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF6201).


North Gosforth

Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne#English

An outer suburb and civil parish in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2470).


Seale and Sands

A civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey, England, which includes the villages of Seale and The Sands.


Astwick

From Old English ēast (“east”) + wīċ (“village”).

A hamlet and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL215385).


Broadhembury

A village and civil parish in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST1004).


Salford Priors

Affix from early possession by Kenilworth Priory.

A village and civil parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP0751).


Bradenham

A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Wycombe district (OS grid ref SU8297).

A village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF9208).


Ketley

Telford and Wrekin
Telford and Wrekin#English

A suburban village and civil parish in Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6711).


Ashton under Hill

A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9938).


Harvington

A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0549).


Hinton on the Green

A village and civil parish (served by Hinton on the Green and Aston Somerville Parish Council) in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0240).


Aston Somerville

A village and civil parish (served by Hinton on the Green and Aston Somerville Parish Council) in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0438).


Papworth St Agnes

Manorial affix from Agnes de Papewurda (Papworth), not a church of St Agnes.

A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL268645).


Papworth Everard

A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL285635).


Farcet

Inherited from Middle English Farresheved, from Old English *Fearreshēafod, from fearres (“bull's”) + hēafod (“head”); for the formation, compare Gateshead, Shepshed, and Swineshead.

inh+

A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England, south of Peterborough (OS grid ref TL2094).


Flasby with Winterburn

A civil parish (without a council) in Craven district, North Yorkshire, England.


Misson

en-proper noun

Misson (countable and uncountable, plural Missons)

Probably from a derivative of Old English mos (“moss; marsh, swamp”).

A village and civil parish in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6895).


Grafton Regis

West Northamptonshire
West Northamptonshire#English

A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP7546).


ラウス

A market town and civil parish with a town council in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3287).


Hawkinge

Folkestone and Hythe
Folkestone and Hythe#English

A town and civil parish with a town council in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2140).


Lowside Quarter

A civil parish in Copeland borough, Cumbria, England.


Hamstall Ridware

A village and civil parish in Lichfield district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1019).


Sancton

en-proper-noun

Sancton (countable and uncountable, plural Sanctons)

Recorded as Sandtona in the Pipe rolls, the placename derives from Old English sand (“sand”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). The first part of the name arose through popular association with Old English sanct (“saint”).

East Riding of Yorkshire
East Riding of Yorkshire#English

A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE901392).


Spooner Row

A small village and civil parish with a community council in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM0997). The civil parish was created in 2019 from part of Wymondham, and includes the settlements of Spooner Row, Suton and Wattlefield.


Bickleigh

A village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS9407).

A small village and civil parish in South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX5262).


Westbury-sub-Mendip

A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST5048).


Silchester

A village and civil parish in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6262).


Frisby on the Wreake

A village and civil parish in Melton borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK6917).


Ousden

From Old English ūf (“owl”) + denu (“valley”), with an intrusive -s-.

A village and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL742915).


Hodnet

Hodnet (countable and uncountable, plural Hodnets)

From Welsh hawdd (“pleasant, peaceful”) + nant (“brook, stream”).

A village and civil parish in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ613286).


Wistow

From Old English wīc + stōw (“dwelling place”).

der

A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL2781).

A hamlet and civil parish (known as Wistow cum Newton Harcourt) in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP6495).

A village and civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5935).


Binham

en-proper-noun

Binham (countable and uncountable, plural Binhams)

From the Old English personal name Bynna + hām (“homestead”).

A village and civil parish in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF980390).


Upwell

A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF5002).


Edworth

From the Old English personal name Edda + worþ (“enclosure”).

A village and civil parish of Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL220824).


Eyeworth

From Old English īeġ (“island”) + worþ (“enclosure”).

A village and civil parish of Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL248455).


Dawley Hamlets

A civil parish in Telford and Wrekin borough, Shropshire, England.


Gisburn

A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD8248).


Thorverton

A village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS9202).


Morebath

A small village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS9524).


Shepshed

A town and civil parish with a town council in Charnwood borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK4719).


Roborough

A small village and civil parish in Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS5717).


Chawton

A village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England, south-west of Alton (OS grid ref SU7037).


Watchfield

Vale of White Horse
Vale of White Horse#English

A village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU248904).


Mitcheldean

A historical market town and civil parish in Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO6618).


Cubbington

A village and civil parish in Warwick district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP3468).


Ingestre

A village and civil parish (served by Ingestre with Tixall Parish Council) in Stafford borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9724).


Tixall

A village and civil parish (served by Ingestre with Tixall Parish Council) in Stafford borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9722).


Shotley

Shotley (countable and uncountable, plural Shotleys)

Shotleys (plural)
Shatley (alternative)
Shetley (alternative)

Recorded as Scoteleia in the Domesday Book, the English village is probably named with Old English Sċott (“Scot, Scottish person”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to Scot + -ley (“lea”).

der

They send letters entreating him to come, to Shotley, Tattingstone, Witham – as far away as Northamptonshire.

2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books, pages 196-197:

A village and civil parish in Babergh district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM236351).


Ufton

A small village and civil parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP3762).


Stoneleigh

A village and civil parish (served by Stoneleigh and Ashow Parish Council) in Warwick district, Warwickshire, England, to the south of Coventry (OS grid ref SP3372).


Ashow

A small village and civil parish (served by Stoneleigh and Ashow Parish Council) in Warwick district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP3170).


Drayton Beauchamp

A village and civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP9012).


Gumley

en-proper noun

Gumley (countable and uncountable, plural Gumleys)

From the Old English personal name Guma, a byname from guma (“man; hero”), + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

A village and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP681719).


Heslington

A suburban village and civil parish in the City of York, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE6250).


Kentford

A village and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, on the Cambridgeshire border and previously in Forest Heath district (OS grid ref TL7066).


Aberford

A village and civil parish (served by Aberford & District Parish Council) in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4337).

Lotherton cum Aberford
Parlington
Sturton Grange


Parlington

A civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, served by Aberford & District Parish Council (OS grid ref SE4236).


Eydon

South Northamptonshire
South Northamptonshire#English

A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP5450).


Chacombe

A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, on the border with Oxfordshire, and previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP4943).


Whicham

A hamlet and civil parish in Cumberland, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough (OS grid ref SD1382).


Ouston

en-proper-noun

Ouston (countable and uncountable, plural Oustons)

From an unclear first element + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

der

A village and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ2554).


Kington Langley

A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9276).


Kington Magna

A village and civil parish (served by Buckhorn Weston and Kington Magna Parish Council) in Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST7622).


Kington St Michael

A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9077).


Broughton Gifford

A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8764).


Clint cum Hamlets

A civil parish in Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire, England.


Bitterley

A village and civil parish in southern Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5677).


Wrestlingworth and Cockayne Hatley

A civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England.


Hordley

en-proper-noun

Hordley (countable and uncountable, plural Hordleys)

Perhaps from Old English hord (“hoard, treasure”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to hoard + -ley (“lea”).

A village and civil parish in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3830).


Skipton-on-Swale

A village and civil parish in Hambleton district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3679).


Sutton Veny

The "Veny" affix apparently stems from fenny.

A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, south-east of Warminster (OS grid ref ST8942).


Farlam

A village and civil parish in City of Carlisle district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY5558).


Hartleyburn

A civil parish in south-west Northumberland, England.


Wraxall and Failand

A civil parish in North Somerset district, Somerset, England.


Elham

A village and civil parish in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1744).


Hanbury

From Old English hēan, accusative, dative and genitive case of hēah (“high”) + byriġ, the dative case of burg (“fortified place”).

East Staffordshire
East Staffordshire#English

A village and civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1727).


Harthill with Woodall

A civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.


Northmoor

From Old English norþ (“north”) + mōr (“moor”).

West Oxfordshire
West Oxfordshire#English

A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4102).


Preesall

From Cumbric *pres (“bush”) + Old English hǫfuð (“head”).

A village and civil parish (with a town council) in Wyre borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3647).


Miserden

A village and civil parish in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9308).


Williton

Somerset West and Taunton
Somerset West and Taunton#English

A large village and civil parish in Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST0741).


Harthill

Harthill (countable and uncountable, plural Harthills)

From Old English heorot (“deer, hart”) + hyll (“hill”).

Cheshire West and Chester
Cheshire West and Chester#English

A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5055).

Derbyshire Dales
Derbyshire Dales#English

A civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England.


Heyshott

A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8918).


Cuddesdon and Denton

South Oxfordshire
South Oxfordshire#English

A civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England.


Elford

en-proper noun

Elford (countable and uncountable, plural Elfords)

From either the Old English personal name Ella or alor (“alder”) + ford (“ford”).

A village and civil parish in Lichfield district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1810).


Walton-on-Trent

South Derbyshire
South Derbyshire#English

A village and civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2118).


Roudham and Larling

A civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England.