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.

Fleet Ho

Other OS name in the Parish of Fleet

Etymology

, 1774 Hutch1 , now Moonfleet Hotel ( 1 ″ ) , this named from John Meade Falkner 's novel Moonfleet ( 1898 ) which is centred on this house , once the seat of the Mohun family ( in Fleet from the 14th cent. , cf. Geoffrey , Nicholas le Moune 1327 SR ) .