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.

Reads Rest

Other OS name in the Parish of Banstead

Historical Forms

  • Reeds Rest 1765 R

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Reeds Rest 1765 R , and owes its name to ' Captaine ' Read who died here in 1691 .