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.

Totease

Early-attested site in the Parish of Buxted

Historical Forms

  • Totenhesse 1200 FF
  • Tottehese 1288 Ass 1327,1332 SR
  • Totheys(e) 1561 SRS20,442 1587 SRS14,13
  • Tothays 1705 ParReg
  • Tothease 1763 ParReg
  • Totease Oak 1724 B

Etymology

'Tot(t)a's brushwood,' v. hese .