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.

Little Horsted

Major Settlement in the Parish of Little Horsted

Historical Forms

  • Horstede 1086 DB 1326 FA
  • Horstude 1165 LN
  • Esthorstede 1288 Ass
  • Parva Horstede 1291 Tax
  • Horstede juxta Huckefeld 1304 Ass
  • Horstede Lytel 1355 FM

Etymology

Little and East and by Uckfield to distinguish from Horsted Keynes supra 336.