Daily #oedantedatings no. 946:

256-year antedating of soaper ‘soap-boiler, soapmaker’ (in #OED from c.1225)

æt Sapere tún (969 [11th-century copy])
sapertune (1045 [18th-century copy])
[Saberton in Beckford]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Gloucestershire 2:43–4 (Sawyer 1324 and 1397)

Daily #oedantedatings no. 942:

248-year antedating of homecroft ‘infield’ (in #OED from a.1500)

Homcrofte (1252) [Stanwell]
#EPNS Place-Names of #Middlesex, p. 208

Homcroft (13th)
EPNS Place-Names of #Wiltshire, p. 428

Homcroft (1304) [Home Croft in Alkington]
EPNS Place-Names of #Gloucestershire 2, p. 210

Homcrofte (1347) [Meesden]
EPNS Place-Names of #Hertfordshire, p. 300

Daily #oedantedatings no. 940:

139-year antedating of grass-croft (in #OED from 1349)

Grascrofte (c.1210) [Steeple Barton]
#EPNS Place-Names of #Oxfordshire, p. 250

Grascroft (1224)
EPNS Place-Names of #Wiltshire, p. 427

Grascroft (13th c.)
EPNS Place-Names of #Worcestershire, p. 389

le Grescroftsykes (1310) [Barlow]
EPNS Place-Names of #Derbyshire, p. 205

Grascroft (1323) [Bourton near Banbury]
EPNS Place-Names of Oxfordshire, p. 415

Daily #oedantedatings no. 939:

343-year antedating of sextry barn ‘tithe-barn belonging to a sacristan’ (in #OED from 1843)

Sextry barn (15th c.) [Ely]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Cambridgeshire, p. 313

Daily #oedantedatings no. 939:

343-year antedating of sextry barn ‘tithe-barn belonging to a sacristan’ (in #OED from 1843)

Sextry barn (15th c.) [Ely]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Cambridgeshire, p. 313

Daily #oedantedatings no. 938:

13-year antedating of bleach-croft ‘enclosure used for bleaching cloth’ (in #OED from 1852)

Bleach Croft (1839) [Ardsley]

#EPNS Place-Names of the West Riding of #Yorkshire 1, p. 291

Daily #oedantedatings no. 938:

13-year antedating of bleach-croft ‘enclosure used for bleaching cloth’ (in #OED from 1852)

Bleach Croft (1839) [Ardsley]

#EPNS Place-Names of the West Riding of #Yorkshire 1, p. 291

Daily #oedantedatings no. 937:

245-year antedating of nameless (sense 4b) ‘that has not yet been given a name’ (in OED from c.1625)

Namelesfurlong (1380)

#EPNS Place-Names of #Middlesex, p. 199

Daily #oedantedatings no. 936:

54-year antedating of gravel-pit (in #OED from c.1440)

Gravelpette (1386)
#EPNS Place-Names of #Hertfordshire, p. 258

le Grauelpettys (1430) [Harlow, #Essex]
Addendum in EPNS Place-Names of the East Riding of Yorkshire, p. lvi

Daily #oedantedatings no. 935:

187-year antedating of hay-barn (in #OED from 1577)

Hayberne (1390) [Haybarn Farm in Aston]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Warwickshire, p. 34

Daily #oedantedatings no. 934:

571-year antedating of broom-croft (in #OED from 1871)

le Bromcroft (13th), Bromcroft (1327) [Bradfield]
#EPNS Place-Names of the West Riding of #Yorkshire 1, pp. 232 & 242

Bromecroft (1322) [Yate]
EPNS Place-Names of #Gloucestershire 3, p. 46

Bromcroft (1307–27) [Codicote]
EPNS Place-Names of Hertfordshire, p. 282

Bromcroft (1362) [Fixby]
EPNS Place-Names of West Riding of Yorkshire 3, p. 37

Bromcroft (1375) [Aston]
EPNS Place-Names of #Warwickshire, p. 341

Daily #oedantedatings no. 933:

449-year antedating of lingy (adj.1) ‘covered with heather’ (in #OED from 1649)

Lingihou (c.1200), le Lingihoc (1317)

#EPNS Place-Names of #Nottinghamshire, p. 284

Daily #oedantedatings no. 932:

211-year antedating of horse-grass ‘area of grazing land sufficient to feed a horse’ (in #OED from 1493)

le Horsgres (1282)

#EPNS Place-Names of #Nottinghamshire, p. 282

OED’s earlier quote (a.1000) belongs under garston ‘paddock’, not here.

Daily #oedantedatings no. 931:

252-year antedating of stack-yard ‘rick-yard’ (in #OED from 1569)

Stakkeyarde (1317)

#EPNS Place-Names of #Nottinghamshire, p. 283

Daily #oedantedatings no. 925:

422-year antedating of strawless (in #OED from 1691)

Stratton Streles (1269)
Stratton Streules (1347)

#EPNS Place-Names of #Norfolk Part 3, p.103

Daily #oedantedatings no. 924:

29-year antedating of fold-course ‘right of foldage, sheepwalk’ (in #OED from 1538)

ffoldecourseland (1509) [in Marsham]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Norfolk Part 3, p. 95

Daily #oedantedatings no. 923:

307-year antedating of sweeting-tree ‘tree bearing small, sweet, early apples’ (in #OED from 1908)

the Sweetinge tree (1601) [in Knipton]
#EPNS Place-Names of #Leicestershire Part 2, p. 19

Sweetingtree Close (1629) [in Itteringham]
EPNS Place-Names of #Norfolk Part 3, p. 91

Sweetingtree hill (1662) [in Mixbury]
EPNS Place-Names of #Oxfordshire, p. 231

Sweeting Tree Close (1777) [in Wentworth]
EPNS Place-Names of the West Riding of #Yorkshire Part 1, p. 122

Daily #oedantedatings no. 922:

65-year antedating of sick-house (in #OED from 1491)

Sykhouse (1426) [in Cawston]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Norfolk Part 3, p. 76

Daily #oedantedatings no. 921:

438-year antedating of lathe-yard ‘barn-yard’ (in #OED from 1891)

le latheyerd (1453) [in Cawston]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Norfolk Part 3, p. 75

Daily #oedantedatings no. 920:

100-year antedating of cherry-tree (in #OED from c.1400)

Chirretreaker (c.1300) [in Calthorpe]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Norfolk Part 3, p. 70