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.

Honer

Early-attested site in the Parish of Pagham

Historical Forms

  • holan horan fleot 680 BCS 10th

Etymology

'Hollow-bank creek,' v. holh , ora , fleot . The creek is the channel now called Pagham Rife.