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.

Sleep Bottom & Sleep Brook

Other OS name in the Parish of Alderholt

Historical Forms

  • Black Water 1811 OS

Etymology

( Black Water 1811 OS ) , probably from slǣp ' a slippery, muddy place ' , cf. Slepe in Lytchett Min . par . supra , with botm and brōc , cf. Blackwatersupra .