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.

Bocketts Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Leatherhead

Etymology

Bocketts Fm. This estate covers the fields marked in a survey of 1629 (Merton College) as Great , Lower Great , Lower Bockett and Bockett Feilds . The s is therefore the plural sign, not the possessive. Bocket (t ) would seem to be an et -derivative of boc , 'beech,' of the type noted infra 358–9.