Elsted
Major Settlement in the Parish of Elsted
Historical Forms
- Halestede 1086 DB
- Ellesteda 1180 P
- Elested 1196 Cur
- Ellested' 1203 1249 FF 1261,1288 Ass 1291 Tax 1428 FA
- Elnestede 1212 Fees72 1230 Box 1235 FF 1242 1248 Ass 1258 Ipm 1272 1289 Ipm 1296 SR 1302 RH 1316 FA 1327,1332 SR 1421,1456 IpmR
- Elenestede 1230 Box
- Elmestede 1279 Ass 1296 SR
- Eldestede 1371 IpmR 1428 FA
- Elsted al. Elnested 1618 InstPRO
Etymology
There are, in addition, a certain number of forms in which editors have transcribed the name as Elvestede or Eluestede but the evidence of such forms as Elenestede , Elmestede is conclusive that these should have been read as Elnstede . Only from Eln - could one get later Elen -, Elm -. Two forms in -stude have been noted, one 12th and one 13th cent.
'Elder-tree place,' v. ellen , stede , or 'place of the elder-trees' from gen. pl. el (le )na .