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.

Hookwood

Other OS name in the Parish of Limpsfield

Historical Forms

  • la Hoke 1312 AOMB

Etymology

was earlier simply Hook and is still so locally ( SAC vi ) . It is la Hoke 1312AOMB . v. hoc . The estate lies in an angle of the parish .