Lower SlacksteadLower Slackstead, Hursley |
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settlement |
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Hursley Hampshire SU3925 |
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HANTSLOC.t |
old map: | 25inch County Series map -- Hants XLIX.9 |
Slackstead otherwise: slastede, 903-16; Slacstede, 1269; Slaghstede, 1350 |
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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. |