Horseway
Early-attested site in the Parish of Chatteris
Historical Forms
- Hors(e)hythe, Hors(e)hithe 1238 ElyCouch 1489 et freq
- Horsethe, Horse 13th Chateriz
- Chartris Horseway 1670 FenL
Etymology
Horseway is Hors (e )hythe , Hors (e )hithe 1238ElyCouch et freq to 1489Ct , Horsethe , Horse 13thChateriz , Chartris Horseway 1670FenL . Either 'landing place for horses' or 'muddy landing place' from OE horsc , 'foul, muddy,' noted under Horkesley, Horsefrith and Horsepit's Fm (PN Ess 392, 278, 361). v. hȳð . For loss of th cf. Odsey supra 62.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Nightlayer's Fen, Long Nightlayer's Drove, Short Nightlayer's Drove
- Old Halves
- Restages
- Warth's Old Halves
- Wenny Fm and Severals
- Willey Fm
- Birch Fen
- Holwoods Fm
- Honey Hill
- Horslode Fen Fm
Other OS name
- Horseley Fen Drove
- Acre Fen
- Block Fen
- Burrow Lands
- Campole Drove
- Common Fm
- Curf, Curf Fen
- Dean Hill
- Mount Pleasant
- Turf Fen
- Delve Fm
- Ferry Burrows
- Ferry Burrows Drove
- Ferry Drove
- Forty Foot Fm
- Holwood Ho
- Horseley Fen
- How Fen
- Langwood Fm, Langwood Fen
- Langwood Hill Drove
- Normoor
- Pickle Fen
- Slade Field
- Slade Lode Bridge
- Stocking Drove
- Tuck's Gate
- Westmoor
- White Ho Fm