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.

Altar Cottages

Other OS name in the Parish of Crowhurst

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. Alter mead 1842TA . Possibly in former times under some bequest , the rents were devoted to the purposes of the high altar in the church ( SAC vi ) .