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.

Friday Street

Early-attested site in the Parish of Westham

Historical Forms

  • Fryday stret 1527 SAC45,164
  • Fryday streate 1563 DuLa

Etymology

Friday Street is Fryday stret 1527 SAC 45, 164, Fryday streate 1563DuLa . Wright (EDD s. v. Friday ) suggests that the term, found elsewhere in Sussex (229 and 266) and in Surrey, denoted a small collection of houses standing apart from a village.