Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Tytyngehurst 1296 SR

• Tytyngesherst 1327 SR

• Tittinghurst 1597 Ct

• Tydingehurst 1340 NI

• Tettinghurst 1665 SRS17,199

Etymology

'Titta's wood' or 'wood of Titta's people,' v. ing , hyrst . For this unrecorded pers. name, cf. Tittandun in Wo (BCS 1282).The change from t to l is curious and irregular. This land is an outlier of the manor of Plumpton Boscage. In Plumpton the name still exists in Tillinghurst Wood, and gave rise to the pers. name Tillinghaste in the 17th cent. As all the early examples in Ardingly are from pers. names, perhaps we should look for the home of the name in Plumpton and take this place to be a colony from it (M.S.H.).