Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Chackileg 1252 Ch

• Chackylegh 1329 Plea

• Chacklee 1378 AD

• Chackley 1440 AddCh

• Chackeleg' 1274 Ipm

• Chacklegh 1363 AddCh

• Chadkeleg' 1275 Cl

• Chakkeleye 1299 Ipm

• Chakele 1308 ib

• Chacculey 1431 AddCh

• Chatkileg, boscus de Chatkileg c.1300 AD

• Chattkylegh 1308 ChRR

• Chatkylegh 1323 Plea 1510 Plea

• Chatkyley iuxta Briddesmere 1437 ChRR

• Chatkeley 1417 AD 1418 ChRR

• Chekkeleye, Checkeleye 1321,1322 Fine 1584 ChRR

• Chekylegh 1581 ib

• Chekleghe 1396 Cl 1429 Tab

• Chekley 1437 AD 1482 Chol 1517 ChRR

• Checkley 1519 AD

• Checley 1600 AD

• Cheickley 1560 Orm2

• Chetley 1740 Cre

Etymology

'Ceaddica's wood', from an OE  pers.n. Ceaddica and lēah. No such pers.n. form is recorded, but it is a possible -ica derivative of the OE  pers.n. Ceadda . The first el. of this p.n. is usually taken to be the same as that in Checkley He, St, either ceacce 'a lump, a hill' or an OE  pers.n. Ceacca (cf. DEPN s.n.Checkendon, EPN s.v. ceacce ). This supposes the Chatk - spellings represent Chack -, but the Chadk -, Chattk - forms argue for the originality of -d -, -t - in the first syllable.OE  *Ceaddican -lēah would become Chadkeleg ', hence Chatk -, Chak -, with the unvoicing of -d - before -k -. For the -i -, -y - in -ilegh , -ylegh , cf. Botterley (in Faddiley) 142infra .