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Shaden Tuft

Other OS name in the Parish of West Dean

Historical Forms

  • Shadeing Tuffe 1628 Comm
  • Shad(do)wing Tuffe 1655,1669 ib

Etymology

1830 M , Shadeing Tuffe 1628Comm , Shad (do )wing Tuffe 1655, 1669ib , ' clump of trees offering shade ' from e.ModE  shadowing in that sense ; for tuft cf. Haytuft (258infra ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement