Lower Slackstead

Lower Slackstead, Hursley
settlement
parish:
county:
coords:
Hursley
Hampshire
SU3925
refce: HANTSLOC.t

old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants XLIX.9

Slackstead
otherwise: slastede, 903-16; Slacstede, 1269; Slaghstede, 1350

refce: Coates 1989
SLACKSTEAD, two hamlets in Farley Chamberlayne
Hypothetical Old English 'Slahstede'='sloe place/site'. The [k]-sound for earlier [x] (Old English 'h') is paralleled in eg 'Hickstead' (Sussex). For 'stede' see Sandred (1963). The chalk downs are good blackthorn country. Distinguished now as Upper and Lower Slackstead.

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001