Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Hecheles 1154–89 Orm2

• (le) Echeles 1272 Cl 1281 AD

• Echelez 1489 ChRR

• Echelis 1248 Ipm

• Escheles 1348 BPR

• Etcheles 1408 Orm2

• Eccheles 1446 ChRR

• Echels 1404 ib

• Ecchels 1517 ChEx

• Etchels 1688 Sheaf

• Ochel' 1286 Court, Eyre

• Eccles 1289 Court 17 Orm1 1408

• Echlis c.1290 Orm2

• Echles 1371 Eyre

• Etchells 1302 Tab

• Echells, Etchell(e)s 1397 ChRR 1504 Plea 1568 ChRR

• Ecchell(e)s 1517 ChEx

• Ettchell(e)s 1636 Sheaf

• Etchwells 1322,1340 Orm2

• Etchulls 1527 ib

• E(c)chilles 1441 Eyre 1452 SocAnt 1454 Eyre

• Echil'y 1527 ChRR

• Acholles 1431 Cl

• Eychells c.1602 Chol

• Nechel H3 Orm2 iii 622n

Etymology

'Land added to an estate', v. ēcels . Some spellings show the second syllable interpreted as hyll 'a hill', or wella 'a well'. If Agnes de Nechel H3 Orm2 iii622n. belongs here, the form derives from atten (OE  æt þǣm ) 'at the-'.