St Leonards and St Ives
refce:	Coates 1989 ST LEONARDS AND ST IVES, modern parish carved out of Ringwood A civil parish uniting a real saint with a fraud. There was a 'St Leonard's chapel' in Beaulieu; the saint is often associated with forest districts (cf 'St Leonard's forest' in Sussex). St Ives is 1187 'le Yvez' 1190 'Yves' 1212 '(in) Yvetis' and these forms may represent the singular and plural of an hypothetical Old English/Middle English 'ifet(t)' from 'ifig'='ivy', thus 'ivy grown copse(s)'. The formation may parallel that of PRIVETT and that of numerous names in Kent and Sussex which are '-ett' derivatives of words for trees, in the sense 'wood or grove of such and such type of tree'.

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   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001