Hampstead Norris
Major Settlement in the Parish of Hampstead Norris
Historical Forms
- Hanstede 1086 DB
- Hamesteda Willelmi de Sifrewast 1167 P
- Hamestede 1195 Cur
- Hamsted' 1220 Fees
- Hamstede Cyfrewast', Hamsted' Ciffrewast, Hamstude Cyfrewast 1284 Ass
- Hamstede Ferres 1401–2 FA
- Hamstedferreris 1410–16 BM
- Hampsted 1275 Fine 1276 Ch 1316 FA
- Hampstede Cyfrewast 1351 Ipm
- Hampsted Ferrers 1375 Fine
- Hampstedeferrerys 1409 BM
- Hampstede Cifrewast 1410 Fine
- Hampstede Norreys 1517 DInc
Etymology
v. hāmstede 'homestead'. The descent of the manor is given in VCH iv, 74. William de Sifrewast was holding it in 1166–7. It passed to Thomas de Clare in 1269–70, and to Robert de Muscegros in 1276.The daughter of Robert de Muscegros married John, first Lord Ferrers of Chartley. In 1448 it was sold to the trustees of John Norreys .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Adam's Land Copse
- Allen's Allotment, Allen's Row
- Ambrose Barn, Ambrose Copse, Ambrose Pond, Ambrose Row
- Banterwick Barn
- Beech Wd, Beech Lodge
- Birch Cottages
- Bottom Fm
- Box Cottage
- Box Wood
- Breach Barn, Breach Row
- Buttonshaw Bottom, Buttonshaw Fm
- Chalkpit Piece
- Little Cheseridge Wood
- Church Pightle
- Church St
- The Common, Common Barn, Common Firs
- Cuckoo Pits
- Damaskfield Copse
- Dark Lane Row
- Down Row
- Down Wood
- Drove Lane
- Eling Common, Eling Fm, Eling Gorse, Elingpark Copse
- Fence Wood, Fence Lane
- Fifield Fm
- The Firs
- Firtree Fm
- Floodcross Cottage
- Folly Hill
- Four Elms
- Fox and Hounds P.H.
- Furze Hill
- Gravelly Pightle
- Green Hams Lane
- Grimsbury Castle, Grimsbury Wd
- Harbert's Bottom
- Hatchgate Cottage
- Heather Piece
- Hermitage
- Hollingsworth Cottage
- Horsleys Row
- Little Hungerford
- Ivy Cottage
- Ladies Hill Wood
- Laycroft Wood
- Malthouse Fm
- Middlefield Barn
- Milkhill Barn
- Money's Allotment
- Mudgate Cottages
- New Copse
- New Plantation
- Nine Acre Row
- Northfield Row
- Oakhouse Fm
- Park Wd
- Parsons Hill Row
- Parsons Piece
- Pheasant Hill Wd
- Pickedcroft Row
- Pimbus Shaw
- Pouch Pightle
- Poundpit Piece
- Ramsworth Cottages
- Great Ridge Copse, Little Ridge Copse
- Rook's Copse
- Round Hill Wood
- Sandpit Copse
- Speedwell
- Spring Plantation
- Slates Hill Wd
- Swallow Hole
- Townsend Fm
- Water St
- Wellhouse, Wellhouse Fm
- Well Lane
- Westbrook Copse
- Wild Duck Pond
- Windmill Hill Plantation
- Winton House
- Wych Pit
- Yewtree Bottom