Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Swallowmyln quarter 1606,1611 Terrier

• Swallow mill quarter 1648 LindDep 1682 Dudd

• Swallow(e) Mill quarter 1648 Foster 1671,1679 Terrier

• a Feild called Swallow(e) Mill quarter 1700 LindDep 1700 Terrier

• Swallow(e) Mill Quarter 1662 1693 Foster 1697,1718,1724 Terrier 1730 Foster 1745 Terrier

• swallow Mill quarter 1685 LindDep

• the Feild called Show bridgquarter 1601 Terrier

• Shawbridge quarter 1638 ib

• Shaw Bridge Quarter 1668 ib

• Sherriff Mill quarter 1690 Terrier

• Sheriffe 1630 BT

• Sherife 1665 Inv

Etymology

SWALLOW MILL QUARTER (lost), Swallowmyln quarter 1606, 1611Terrier , Swallow mill quarter 1648LindDep 67 , 1682Dudd , Swallow (e ) Mill quarter 1648Foster , 1671, 1679Terrier , 1687, a Feild called Swallow (e ) Mill quarter 1700LindDep 67 , 1700Terrier , Swallow (e ) Mill Quarter 1662ib , 1693Foster , 1697, 1718, 1724Terrier , 1730Foster , 1745Terrier , swallow Mill quarter 1685LindDep 67 , in all probability named from an ancestor of Thomas Swallow of Beasby , who held land in Goxhill 1676MiscDon 14 . It is the same as the Feild called Show bridgquarter 1601Terrier , Shawbridge quarter 1638ib , Shaw Bridge Quarter 1668ib , cf. Scobrigmar 1309 (e14) Bridl (v. (ge)mǣre 'a boundary'), Shawbriggs 1631, 1702Dudd , 1718, 1724, 1745Terrier , Shawbridges 1679ib , Shaw Briggs 1693Foster , 1697Terrier , 1775EnclA , Shaw-brigge 1690Terrier , Shaw -Briggs 1697ib , Shawbrigs 1700ib , Shaw bridge 1730Foster , Shoebridge 1648LindDep 67 , Shoebridgs (sic)1649ib , and also the Shaw 1702, 1707Dudd , 1775EnclA ; the 1309 form Scobrig - is apparently a Scand. compound from skógr 'a wood' and bryggja , with the English meaning 'a bridge', and it is noteworthy that the majority of the later forms are in -brigg . The first el. of these later spellings is from OE  sceaga 'a small wood' and it is impossible to be sure of the exact history of the name, which could originally have been *Sceagbrycg 'the bridge near a small wood', which was Scandinavianised, as in the Scobrig - form.On balance this seems more likely than that the name was a Scand. compound, subsequently with a replacement of sceaga for skógr .The same quarter appears once as Sherriff Mill quarter 1690Terrier , named from the family of James Sheriffe 1630BT and James Sherife 1665Inv . This was one of the four fields of Goxhill and for quarter , v. Chapel Field Rd supra .