Editing Oxted (section)

==Toponymy==
The first written mention of Oxted is from an [[Anglo-Saxon]] charter of 862 AD, in which it appears as ''Acustyde''.<ref name= Leveson-Gower>{{cite journal |last= Leveson-Gower |first= Granville |year= 1874 |title= Surrey Etymologies: Tandridge Hundred - Part II |url= https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-379-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_6/surreyac006_127-226_leveson-gower.pdf |journal= Surrey Archaeological Collections |volume= 6 |pages= 127–226 |access-date= 1 December 2021 |archive-date= 7 May 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220507104145/https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-379-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_6/surreyac006_127-226_leveson-gower.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref> In the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, the settlement is recorded as ''Acstede''.{{sfn|Mills|2003|p=360}} In later documents, it appears as ''Akested'' (12th century), ''Axsted'', ''Axstude'' and ''Ocsted''  (13th century) and ''Oxsted'' (14th century).{{sfn|Gover|Mawer|Stenton|1969|pp=332-334}} The name derives from the [[Old English]] ''āc'' meaning "oak" and ''stede'' meaning "place". Oxted is generally agreed to mean "place of [[oak trees]]". {{sfn|Mills|2003|p=360}}{{sfn|Gover|Mawer|Stenton|1969|pp=332-334}}

Hurst Green is first recorded in the mid-15th century as ''le Herst'' in a deed of [[Edward IV]] and as ''Herste grene'' in 1577. The name is thought to mean "open space by the wood (hurst)".<ref name= Leveson-Gower/> "Holland" appears in 1757 as ''Hollands''{{sfn|Gover|Mawer|Stenton|1969|pp=332-334}} and is thought to mean "land by the hill".{{sfn|Mills|2003|p=245}}