Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Letlinges 1177 P

• Ledlinges 1220 Bracton

• Ledling 1230 FF

• Ludling(g) 1309,1313 Ass

• Ludlyng(e) 1358 Ass 1453 Loseley

• Northeludlyng 1486 ib

• Lidlinge 1613 ParReg 1615 FF

• Littilinge 1666 ParReg

• Littleing 1693 FF

• Little Ing 1823 G

• Stokelinges 1196 SoRSxxxiii

Etymology

This is a difficult name. It is more likely that it is a hlinc- name than an ingas-name (for the forms of such names cf. Ekwall, PN in -ing 29–30, the forms of the names in hlinc mentioned in PN Wo 372, PN Sx 544, PN D 665, and Stocklinch (So) Stokelinges 1196 SoRS xxxiii). The place lies on a slope, which may be the hlinc , and if so, the first element may be the name of the stream here, for OE  hlȳde , ME  lude is a common name for a stream, cf. RN 272–3, s. n. Lyde. Hence possibly 'slope(s) by the Lyde.'