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.

Farthings

Early-attested site in the Parish of Woolbeding

Etymology

Farthings (6″) is so called in 1583 (SRS 3, 159). It is OE  feorðung 'fourth part.' For the various possibilities of meaning when it is used as a measure of land, v. NEDs. v. farthing 4.

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement