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

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

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

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

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

    ( 6 ″ )

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    , 1841

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

    , v. Elizabeth Plantationsupra

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

    , 1808 PR(B) , an old inn

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

    , outlying on Lutterworth Rd and presumably a former wayside hostelry

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

    ( lost ) , c1750, 1757, 1758Anc

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

    ( 6 ″ )

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

    , cf. North Slip supra

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

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

  17. The Slip (Other OS name, Wingerworth, Derbyshire)

    ( 6 ″ )

  18. The Slip (Other OS name, Littleton, Middlesex)

    is so named c. 1840 (TA ) , v. slipe

  19. The Slip (Other OS name, Heston, Middlesex)

    is so named c. 1840 (TA ) . v. slipe . It survives as the name of a street

  20. The Slip (Other OS name, Gunton, Norfolk)