Hartslock Wood, Hartslock Cottage and Hart's Lock
Early-attested site in the Parish of Goring
Etymology
Hartslock Wood, Hartslock Cottage and Hart's Lock (all 6″). Cf. Locstigle 1181 Gor, Locstiele c. 1310 Gor, Locstyle 1331 Gor, Locstieleweye 1355 Gor, Locstilweye 1362 Gor, Locstilforlong 1363 Gor, Lokstile 1377 Gor. This means 'stile by the lock,' v. stigel , to which 'way' and 'furlong' have been added. A family named Hurt , (le ) Herth owning land in this neighbourhood is mentioned 1337et freq to early 15th Gor, and is probably responsible for the first element of the modern name. The 1181 form is more than a century earlier than the first example of the word lock in the sense 'barrier on a river' in the NED.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Great Chalk Wood, Little Chalk Wood
- Cleeve, Cleeve Mill, Cleeve Lock
- Coombe End Fm
- Elvendon Fm
- Gatehampton Fm
- Goring Heath
- Haw Fm
- Holme Copse
- Wellground Shaw
- Lycroft's Shaw
- Wroxhills Wood
- Beech Fm
- Stapnall's Fm
Other OS name
- Old Elvendon Wood
- Bottom Fm
- Grove Fm
- Ashengrove Wood
- Ashengrove Covert
- Batchelor's Green Wood
- Juniperhill Wood
- Lambourne's Wood
- Nakeds Shaw
- Pennyroyal Plantation
- Ruscroft's Wood
- Sandhills Copse
- Stoney Batter Wood
- Bensgrove Wood
- Cold Harbour
- Deadman's Lane
- Burntwood
- Newhouse Fm
- Little Oaks
- Crays Pond
- Guttridge's Wood
- Friarhampstead Wood
- Deadfields Clump
- Eastfield Lane
- Shaws
- Spring Fm
- Hayfield Shaws
- Ladygrove Shaw
- Little Heath
- Querns Fm
- Summershill Shaw
- Whitehill Plantation