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.

Egdean

Major Settlement in the Parish of Egdean

Historical Forms

  • Egedene 1279 QW, Ch
  • Eggedon 1288 Ass
  • Eggedene 1318 FF 1335 Pat 1340 NI 1452 Banco

Etymology

'Ecga's valley,' v. denu .

Alternatively, and until quite late in ecclesiastical usage, the parish was known as

Places in the same Parish