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.

Guestling Hundred

Hundred in the County of Sussex

Historical Forms

G(h)estelinges 1086 DB
Gest(e)ling' 1248 Fees 1279 Ass
Estlyng 1450 Pat

Etymology

v. Guestling infra 508. The hundred meeting-place was probably at a spot near Fairlight Church called 'Hundred acre' in the TA (J.E.R.).

Parishes in this Hundred

Parish