Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Fikedene 1296 Vern

• Fykedene 1344 Sheaf 1353 Eyre 1392 ChRR 1430 Orm2 1544 ChRR 1573

• Fykeden 1392 Orm2

• Fikeden 1439(1460),1440 ChRR

• Fykdene 1460 ib

• Fikden 1460 Orm2 1508,1519 ChRR 1537 Plea 1539 MinAcct

• Fikden in Eton 1509 Orm2

• Fykden 1544 Plea

• Thykeden c.1300 Orm2ii838

• Fygden 1457 Sheaf

• Figden 1579 Dugd 1662,1671 Sheaf 1724 NotCestr

• Over Figden 1579 Dugd

• Figden now called Figdale 1816 Lysons

• Figdale 1481 Orm2 1771 Sheaf 1842 OS

• Figdale or Figden 1739 Sheaf

• Figden now called Figdale 1816 Lysons

• Figdon, Figdon within the parisshe of Ekleston 1539–47 Dugd, Orm2

Etymology

'Thicket valley', v. þicce 1 , denu , dæl 1 . Initial F - displaces Th -, cf. Fregreue 147supra , and the form is influenced by ME  fyke , fike (OE  fīc ) 'a fig-tree', cf. fike NED. The site of the hamlet, near Eaton Stud infra , is discussed in Sheaf1 1, pp. 88, 101.