English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

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Stanmer

Parish in the County of Sussex

Etymology

In DB it is part of Falmer Hundred (now merged in Younsmere). It was then a manor of the Archbishop of Canterbury's and with other manors of his is put in Loxfield Hundred in SR. It is now a detached part of Ringmer Hundred, part of the old Loxfield Hundred in Pevensey Rape.

Major Settlements

Other places in this Parish

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