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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.

Raggets Wood

Early-attested site in the Parish of Cuckfield

Etymology

Raggets Wood (6″), cf. Raggatfield 1629 SAC 61, 44. The first element is probably the same as Rogate supra 38 with shortening of a in the trisyllable.