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.

Slight Marsh

Other OS name in the Parish of Burstwick

Historical Forms

Sl(e)ight Marshe 1583,1620 FF

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Sl (e )ight Marshe 1583,1620 FF . v. sletta , ' level field . '

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement