Slufters Inclosure

Slufters Inclosure, Minstead
wood
parish:
county:
coords:
Minstead
Hampshire
SU2210
refce: HANTSLOC.t

old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants LXIII.14

Slufter's Inclosure

refce: Coates 1989
SLUFTER'S INCLOSURE in Minstead
No early spellings discovered. I guess that it derives from an earlier place name amounting to 'bog', ultimately from hypothetical Old English 'slohtre' for which there are parallels in continental Germanic languages. A stream flows through the plantation. Possibly, though a little less likely, from 'sloe tree'.

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001