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.

St John Without

Major Settlement in the Parish of St John Without (Lewes)

Historical Forms

  • ecclesia scī Johannis sub castro 1291 Tax
  • parochia Sancti Johannis sub castro de Lewes 1340 NI

Etymology

The ancient parish of St John sub Castro, of which the church was just within the old borough boundary, lay for the most part outside it, and in 1894 the outer parts of the parish were formed into a new parish with the name St John Without .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site