Todham
Early-attested site in the Parish of Easebourne
Historical Forms
- Tadeham 1086 DB 1500 Ipm
- Thadeham by Midhurst 1334 Ipm
- Tadham 1274,1316,1337 Ipm
- Todham 1279 Ass
Etymology
'Tada's homestead,' v. ham . The name Tada is not on record, but cf. Tadley (Ha), BCS 625 Tadanleage . The regular sound-development here as in Trotton infra 44 would have been to Tadham . In the Sussex dialect [ɔ] is frequently unrounded to [a] (cf. Ratham infra 61) and in these two names we probably have an inverted pronunciation, viz. substitution of StEng [ɔ] for an a which is imagined to be dialectal.