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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.

Chantries

Early-attested site in the Parish of Shalford

Etymology

Chantries. These woods were so named because a part of them formed the endowment of the Norbrigge Chantry in Trinity Church, Guildford (VCH iii, 107). Chantry Downs is marked in 1823 (Br).