Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Erdesl' 1285 Eyre

• Erdesley(e) 1327,1330 Pat

• Erdeslee 1347 Eyre

• Erdeslegh 1401 Sheaf

• Erdesle 1402 JRC

• Erdesslegh' iuxta Walley 1471 MinAcct

• Erdisley 1522 MidCh

• Urdesle 1285 For

• Urdeslegh 14 1347 Eyre

• Urdesley 1337 ib

• Urdisl' 1285 ib

• Urdislegh 1357 ChFor

• Urdisley 1442 Tab

• Urdusley 1425 ib

• Hurthesle 1288 Eyre

• Hurdyslegh 1370 ib

• Hirdesle(gh) 1348 MinAcct 1349 Eyre

• Irdeslegh 1390 Tab

• Irdesle 1408 JRC

• Yrdesle 1408 Sheaf

• Yurdesle 1400 Sheaf

• Yerdsley 1401 Sheaf

• Yerdysley 1500 Orm2

• Yerdesley 1522 Tab

• Hurdlegh 1467 MinAcct

• Hurdelegh 1471,1508 ib

• Hurdeley 1560 Sheaf

• Edirslegh iuxta Waley 1467 MinAcct

• Yordesley 1553 Pat

• Y(e)ardesley, Yardisley (Greene) 1611 LRMB200

• Yeardsley 1631 Orm2

• Earsley 1673 Sheaf

• Erdley Hall 1690 Sheaf

• Yeardley 1799 ChRR

Etymology

Perhaps as suggested in DEPN, 'Ēorēd's wood or clearing', from the OE  pers.n. Ēorēd and lēah. But similar forms occur in Eardswick, Erdeshurstes , Earnshaw 331infra , and in Erdeswyk 53supra a lost place in this Hundred, which can hardly be all derived from this pers.n.The common first el. in these p.ns. is probably hirde, hyrde , heorde 'a herdsman'. The persistent loss of H - is parallel to that in the prefixed Hall - of Allostock, Allom 329infra , with stress-shift in the diphthong of heorde .