Sidlesham
Major Settlement in the Parish of Sidlesham
Historical Forms
- Sidelesham 683 BCS 14th
- Sideleshamstede 714 BCS132 14th
- Sidelesham, Sydelesham 1227,1231 Ch 1255 FF 1338 Ch
- Sid(d)lesham 1262 Ass
- Sidlesame 1606 ExchKR
- Filleicha(m) (sic) 1086 DB
- Sithelisham 1230 P
Etymology
'The ham of Sidel.' The pers. name Sīdel is not on record but would be a regular diminutive formation from a , pers. name Sīd (a ) (not recorded), a pet-form of one of the somewhat late and not very well attested Sīde -names in Old English (v. Searle).