Upton Cheyney
village · South Gloucestershire
Old EnglishAI-generated
Upton Cheyney is named from its position as an 'upper farmstead or village' ('ūp tūn') and is further identified by the Cheyney family, who held the manor in the medieval period.
Word origins
- Upton
- Old Englishupper farmstead/village(from ūp "up, upper", tūn "farmstead, village, estate")
- Cheyney
- Norman Frenchfamily name
Historical forms
Uptone · Upton Cheyne