Feltham
Major Settlement in the Parish of Feltham
Historical Forms
- Feltham 969 Crawford c.1100 BCS1264 969 Ch 13th 1100–35 1330
- Feltam 1655 ParReg(Hillingdon)
- Feltehā 1086 DB
- Feltesham, Fultesham 1274 Ass
- Feltem 1668 ParReg(Sunbury)
- Felton 1626 SP 1675 Ogilby
Etymology
The name is possibly a compound of feld, 'open space' and ham , with the same unvoicing of final d to t before h as in Up Waltham (PN Sx 77). See further Ekwall in Studia Neophilologica i, 97 ff. Neither form can be taken as representing an OE original with any accuracy. Each comes from a charter which is a fabrication of the Norman age. Alternatively, the first element might be a plant-name felte , a derivative of OE felt , 'felt,' found in certain plant-names and taken by Ekwall (DEPN) to be the first element of Feltwell (Nf).