Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• S(h)ullingelegh 1279 Ass

• Shullyngelegh 1349 Pat

• Shullynglegh 1350 Cl 1437 IpmR

• Shyllynglegh 1436 IpmR

• Shellingley 1570 SRS19,82

Etymology

This place stands high, with the ground shelving away from it on all sides, so perhaps the original form was scylfinga-leage , 'clearing of the dwellers on the shelf of land,' v. scylf , ing , leah .For the early loss of f , cf. the common development of the p.n. Shelley from scylf-leage . A possible further example of such a first element is Shillingham in Saltash (Co), Schullingham 1306 Ipm.