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.

Forest Side

Other OS name in the Parish of Grasmere

Historical Forms

  • Foresta 1332 SR

Etymology

, 1800 DW , named from ' the common waste…called the Forest ' 1777 NB 148 , the forest being referred to in the name of Thomas de Foresta 1332SR , v. forest .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name