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.

Reedham

Other OS name in the Parish of Coulsdon

Etymology

. This takes its name from the Reedham Orphanage , established here in 1856 by the Rev . Andrew Reed ( VCH iv,200 ) .