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Survey of English Place-Names

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Quest Slade

Other OS name in the Parish of West Dean

Historical Forms

  • Qui(e)stslad 1655,1692 Comm

Etymology

, Qui (e )stslad 1655, 1692Comm , ME  quiste ' wood-pigeon ' , a variant of OE  cūscote recorded from 1420 (NED) , and surviving as WMidl  dial. queest , v. slæd ' valley ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement