English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Eashing and Eashing Bridge

Early-attested site in the Parish of Godalming

Historical Forms

  • (æt) Æscengum 880–5 BCS553 c.1000
  • (to) Eschingum 10th BCS1335 12th
  • Essinge 1229 FF 1272 FF
  • Eshyng 1308 FF
  • Esshinge 1312 Ass
  • Eshyngge 1325 Ass
  • Esshyngge 1358 Loseley
  • Eyssing' 1267 Ass
  • Eschynges 1349 SACxviii
  • Eshing' brydge t.Eliz SACxxv
  • Eshing 1684 Musters
  • Eashing 1588 ParReg

Etymology

'The people of Æsc ,' v. ingas , or, alternatively 'the dwellers by the ash-trees,' v. æsc .