Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Saxcote 1255 RH 1327 SAS2/X

• Sayscot 1274 RH

• Saxecote 1308 Ipm

• Sassecote 1490 Ipm

• Sars(e)coate 1599 PR(H)

• Sarsecote 1607,8 ib

• Sarscote 1611 ib

• Sarscott 1635 1731,83 SBL2511

• Sascott 1615 PR(H)

Etymology

'Seaxa's cottage(s)'. The development has been influenced by Welsh  Sais 'Englishman', a derivative of OE  Seaxe 'Saxons'. This does not, however, account for the form with Sars -, which was obviously the predominant local one in the 17th-18th cent. It is perhaps due to imitation of Arscott supra .