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.

Ripshook and Scratlee

Early-attested site in the Parish of East Dean

Etymology

Ripshook and Scratlee (both 6″) are Rypes hooke and Scradhill in a 1587Rental . The forms are too late for any definite solution to be offered, though it may be that in the first we have the element noted under Ripsley supra 45.

Places in the same Parish