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.

Slaughter Bridge

Early-attested site in the Parish of Slinfold

Etymology

Slaughter Bridge (6″). It is difficult to be sure whether we have any reference to this place but it may be that the road over it is referred to as the via de la Slouhtre in 1279 (Ass 915 m 21d).It was in the hundred of Easewrithe. For the interpretation v. Slaughterford infra 177.