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.

New Forest, Old Forest

Other OS name in the Parish of Hunsingore

Historical Forms

  • Forest Fm 1858 O.S.

Etymology

, Forrest 1708 Ribst , Forest Fm 1858 O.S. , v. forest ; it was on the borders of the Forest of Knaresborough .