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.

Slade Bottom & Slade Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of St Briavels

Historical Forms

  • Sladbottom 1830 M
  • the Slade Grove 1637 InqM
  • Stowsladd 1637 Will

Etymology

( Sladbottom 1830 M ) ( the Slade Grove 1637 InqM) named from Stowsladd 1637 Will , v. slæd ' valley ' ; the valley is below Stowe (supra ) .