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.

Slaughters

Early-attested site in the Parish of Billingshurst

Historical Forms

  • la Sloghtre 1293 Ipm

Etymology

Slaughters is a name now lost but marked on Greenwood's map (1823). It is probably the place called 'la Sloghtre ' in 1293 (Ipm). For the etymology v. Slaughterford infra 177.