Buxted
Major Settlement in the Parish of Buxted
Historical Forms
- Boxted' 1199 Cur
- Boxstude 1210–12 RBE
- Boxstede 1278 Pat 1390 IpmR
- Bocsted(e), Boksted(e) 1230 FF 1405 IpmR
- Boghsted 1308 Cl
- Buksted(e), Bucsted(e), Buxsted(e) 1305 FF
- Baksted 1407 FF
- Buxstyd t.Eliz Ct
- Busted 1564 Deed
- Bucksteed 1588 Holinshed
Etymology
'Place of beech-trees,' v. boc , stede .