Meaning: source of a stream or spring .

Jerome K Jerome died in 1927 and lies buried in the local churchyard .

Chaucer is traditionally said to have visited his granddaughter Alice (effigy in church), wife of William de la Pole (1396-1450) who built the almshouses. Jerome K. Jerome, after the success of Three Men In A Boat (1887), lived at Goulds Grove (or Troy), an old farmhouse on the hill 1.5 miles to the south-east. He worked in a Summer House called the Nook which was surrounded by a thick yew hedge. Israel Zangwill, on a visit, wrote Children of the Ghetto (1892) here in between digging up worms with his pen to feed a young blackbird. H G Wells, W W Jacobs and Eden Phillpotts were other visitors. Jerome K. Jerome worshipped at Ewelme church where he was buried in 1927 .