Plashes Fm and Plashes Wood
Early-attested site in the Parish of Standon
Historical Forms
- Plasses in Staundon 1304 Ipm
- Plescis 1326 Orig
- Plesiz 1329 Ipm
- Plesis 1338 Cl
- Plesshes 1360 1443 IpmR
- Plescy 1340 Ipm
- Plessy 1341 Cl
- Playshys al. Plessy 1425 IpmR
Etymology
This is probably a name of manorial and not of local origin, deriving from the family of Hugh Plessy (1301 Ipm) which must have come from Pleshey (Ess). Cf. VCH iii, 355.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Barwick Fm
- Broken Green
- Labden's Fm
- Latchford
- Mentley Fm
- Puckeridge
- Rennesley Wood
- Rigery
- Salmonsley Wood
- Standon Friars
- Youngsbury
- Pockendon Field