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.

  1. Hindlip (Parish in Worcestershire)

  2. Islip (Parish in Northamptonshire)

  3. Islip (Parish in Oxfordshire)

  4. Ruislip (Parish in Middlesex)

  5. Burnt Slip (Other OS name, Appleby, Lincolnshire)

  6. Cowslip Fm (Other OS name, East Stour, Dorset)

  7. Fire Wood Slip (Other OS name, Ardingly, Sussex)

    ( 6 ″ ) adjoins the site of the old furnace here ( v. infra )

  8. Hindlip Quarry (Other OS name, Eaton and Alsop, Derbyshire)

    ( 6 ″ )

  9. Horslip Bridge (Other OS name, Avebury, Wiltshire)

    ( 6 ″ ) [ hɔslip ] , probably from earlier ' horse-leap .

  10. Lip Lane (Other OS name, Kintbury, Berkshire)

  11. North Slip (Other OS name, Frampton, Dorset)

    , near South Slip , v. slip(p)e

  12. Oxlip Coppice (Other OS name, Abbotsbury, Dorset)

    , cf. the 14th - cent. f.n. Oxenfolde infra

  13. Philip Lane (Other OS name, Brayton, West Riding of Yorkshire)

    , 1841

  14. Philip Spinney (Other OS name, Noseley, Leicestershire)

    , v. Elizabeth Plantationsupra

  15. Slip Inn (Other OS name, Brough, Westmorland)

    , 1808 PR(B) , an old inn

  16. Slip Inn Fm (Other OS name, Ashby Parva, Leicestershire)

    , outlying on Lutterworth Rd and presumably a former wayside hostelry

  17. Slip Inn P.H. (Other OS name, Edith Weston, Rutland)

    ( lost ) , c1750, 1757, 1758Anc

  18. Slip Plantation (Other OS name, Eckington, Derbyshire)

    ( 6 ″ )

  19. South Slip (Other OS name, Frampton, Dorset)

    , cf. North Slip supra

  20. Southwell Landslip (Other OS name, Portland, Dorset)

    , 1892 Map , a cliff fall , cf. Southwell supra