English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Manhood End

Early-attested site in the Parish of Birdham

Etymology

Manhood End must be so called because it is on the bounds of the hundred. There was a place called le Manwode Grene in Birdham c. 1380 (LibC ). As Birdham and Earnley march together, this may have been near the hundred meeting-place (v. supra 79).