Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Tengestvisie 1086 DB

• Tengestwysel, Tengestwissell 1345 Eyre 1360 MinAcct

• T(h)engetuesile, T(h)engetuwisel m13 SocAnt, For

• T(h)engtwysel(e), Ty(e)ngetwysel(e), Tinge(t)twysel(e), T(h)engtwisel(e), Ty(e)ngetwisel(e), Tinge(t)twisel(e), T(h)engtwisel(l), Ty(e)ngetwisel(l), Tinge(t)twisel(l), T(h)engtwisil, Ty(e)ngetwisil, Tinge(t)twisil, T(h)engtwisul, Ty(e)ngetwisul, Tinge(t)twisul 1286,1287,1288 Eyre 1309,1310 Cl 1345,1348 Eyre 1358,1360 MinAcct 1455 ChRR 1494 SocAnt

• Tyngetwesull, Tyngetwesule 1408 ChRR, Orm2

• Tyngetwesill 1474 Earw

• Tyngetewesyll, Tyngetewysyll 1489 Pat

• Tyngethysely Tyntegthysel 1285 For

• Tyngestwysel 1345 Eyre

• Tyngeltwysel(l), Tingeltwysel(l), Tengeltwysel(l), Tyngeltwisel(l), Tyngeltwesel(l), Tingeltwisel(l), Tingeltwesel(l), Tengeltwisel(l), Tengeltwesel(l) 1347,1349,1353 Eyre

• Tingtwisel 1369 Orm2 17

• Tyngtwisell 1574 Sheaf

• Tingtwistle 1603 NotCestr

• Tyngwysell 1378 Eyre

• Tinchtil(l) or Tingetwissel c.1620 Orm2

• Tintwizle near Woodhead c.1703 Chol

• Tintwistle 1724 NotCestr

• Longden 1724 NotCestr

Etymology

The final el. is twisla 'a fork (of a river or valley)'. The village is above the meeting of Arnfield Brook and R. Etherow. For the first el., Ekwall (DEPN) suggests a Brit river-name identical with Teign D 14, RN 398, which he would bring from a derivative of Brit *tagnā 'sprinkling' (Welsh taen ). The place was occasionally called after Longdendale 2supra . The Tyngel -, Tingel -, Tengel - forms from Eyre probably represent mis-written Tynges - etc.