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Survey of English Place-Names

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Hundred Acres Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Banstead

Historical Forms

  • Hundred Acres 1789 LandC
  • Mount Pleasant or the Hundred Acres 1801 LBa
  • acres 1680 LBa

Etymology

Hundred Acres Fm (old 6″) is Hundred Acres 1789 L and C, Mount Pleasant or the Hundred Acres 1801 LBa and corresponds in site to the place earlier known as Frithdonus 1325, le Fredowne containing 100 acres 1540, the freedowne conteyning …100 acres 1680 LBa. The name is probably a compound of fyrhðe , 'wooded country' and dun . The site is now occupied by the London County Lunatic Asylum.