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.

Bailey

Other OS name in the Parish of East Dean

Historical Forms

  • the Bayly 1655 Comm

Etymology

, the Bayly 1655Comm , v. baillie ' bailiwick ' ; this is in the old forest bailiwick of Lea Bailey (217supra ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement