Ashampstead
Major Settlement in the Parish of Ashampstead
Historical Forms
- Essamestede 1155–8 Delisle
- Esshampsted' 1212 Fees
- Eshamsted', Essehamsted' 1220 ib
- Es(s)hamstede 1224–5 Ass
- Essamstede 1355 AD
- Æsham(e)steda c.1180 Rutland
- Ayshamstede 1268–72 FF
- Esthamstud' 1284 Ass
- Asshamstede 1311–12 FF 1340 Gor 1341 Pat 1394 Cl 1410 Fine
- Askhampstede 1338 Pat
- Asshampstede 1346 Pat
Etymology
'Homestead by the ash tree(s)', v. æsc , hāmstede .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Flower's Copse
- Greenaway's Copse
- Holly Lane
- The Row
- Beche Park Wd
- Hassock Copse
- Quick's Green
- Ashampstead Common and Ashampstead Green
- Hartridge Lye
- Home Copse
- Black Wd
- Bowler's Copse
- Bullard's Copse
- Burnt Hill, Burnthill Common
- Caseyfield Shaw
- Challengehook Copse and Challengehook Plantation
- Child's Ct Fm
- Copy Wd
- Doctor's Copse
- Dog Lane
- Eastfield Wd
- Fanny's Copse
- Hitchin Barn
- James's Copse
- Lay Fields, Leyfield Wd
- Limers Shaw
- Long-Croft Shaw
- Lye Wd
- Maple Copse
- Morrell's Shaw
- New Inn
- Norcot Wd
- Palmer's Hill
- Pyke's Hill
- Siccar's Plantation
- Sodom Lane
- Stone Hangers
- Streeks Copse
- Stubbles
- Suck's Lane
- Westcroft Shaw
- White Hill
- Yattendon Lane
- Young Plantation