Matlock
Major Settlement in the Parish of Matlock
Historical Forms
- Meslach 1086 DB
- Matlac, Matlak 1196,1204 Cur 1239 Lib 1254 Misc 1330 QW
- Matloc, Matlok(e) 1204 P 1204 Cur e.13th Darley 1247 Woll 1251 Ch
- Matlok(e) in Pecco 1279 CartDec 1597 WollCh
- Maitlok 1540 ib
- Maitlock(e) 1323 Inqaqd 1348 DbAxxxvi 1533 WollCh
- Mathlac, Mathlak 1233 DbCh 1254 Cl
- Metlok 1291 Tax
- Mattelok 1305 Ipm 1330 Ass 1535–43 L
- Mattelock(e) 1327 Orig 1533 WollCh
- Matelok 1374 Cl
Etymology
Probably 'oak where the moot was held', v. mæðel , āc . This leaves the DB spelling, Meslach , unexplained. The difficulty is in -s -, since e from OE æ and final -ch for -c present no real problem. The most reasonable explanation would seem to be that it is AN sound- substitution of one spirant for another.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Allenhill
- Asker Fm
- Asker Lane
- Bent Lane
- Bidston
- Bilberry Knoll
- Bow Wood
- Breck's Wood
- Broomhill Fm
- The Butts
- Carr Lane
- Castletop Fm
- Cat Tor
- Causeway Lane
- Coumbs Wood
- Cuckoo Stone
- Dark Lane
- Deanhill Ho
- Dimple
- Goodwin's Wood
- Greenhill's Fm
- Hagg Wood
- Hall Dale
- Hall Leys Pleasure Ground
- Harveydale Quarry
- Hearthstone
- Highfield
- High Leas Fm
- High Tor
- Huntbridge Ho
- Hurker Hall
- Hurst Fm
- Jackson Tor
- Jughole Wood
- Lime Tree Road
- Littlemoor
- Lover's Walks
- The Lowes
- Low Leas Fm
- Lumsdale
- Lych Gate
- Lynholmes
- Masson Hill
- Masson Lees Fm
- Matlock Bank
- Matlock Cliff
- Matlock Green
- Matlock Mill
- Matlock Moor
- Meadow Wood Fm
- Megdale
- Newholme
- Newlands
- Nickerson Wood
- Palethorpe Fm
- Pig Tor
- Popecarr
- Salters Lane
- The Shaws
- Shining Cliff
- Smuse Lane
- Starkholmes
- Statham's Cottage
- Wards End
- Wellfield
- White Tor Wood
- The Wolds
- Woodend Ho
- Woodseats Fm
- Wright Lane
- Yewtree Fm