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.

Shortfurrows

Other OS name in the Parish of Caterham

Historical Forms

  • Sortevure 13th StThomas

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Sortevure 13thSt Thomas , Shortfore 1547,Shortfurrowe 1617Ct . It was originally a field - name .