Stancill
Early-attested site in the Parish of Wadworth
Historical Forms
- Steineshale 1086 DB
- Stansale 1199 Ch 1232 Aid 1303 Banco 1328 FF 1342 FA 1428
- Stanshal 1218 FF
- Stansall(e) 1303 KF 1316 Vill 1321,1410 Arm 1403 Pat 1596 FF
Etymology
Goodall 269 suggests that Stancill is from an OE pers.n. Stān and halh 'nook of land', but this is doubtful, since this OE pers.n. is not evidenced with any certainty (cf. Stansfield iii, 177infra ) and apart from the DB spelling there is in the somewhat incomplete evidence a regular absence of the normal ME gen.sg. ending in -es . It is in fact more likely to be a compound of ON steinn or OE stān and ON salr, perhaps as an adaptation of an earlier OE stān -sæl (cf. sele 1 ); in either case it means 'stone dwelling-hall' and may well refer to a Roman villa, the site of which is some 200 yards north-east of the present farm (1″ O.S. 103–6196).
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Alverley Grange
- Burr Hill
- Carr Ho
- Four Lane Ends
- Long Gate
- North Dale Hill
- Pegge Ing
- Salter Sike
- Ash Holt
- Butts Quarry
- Crow Wood
- Gospel Well
- Mill Dike
- Old Hall Fm
- Out Moor
- Red Hill
- Sand Pit
- Blacker Leys
- Carr Bank
- Egg Lane
- Lidgets
- New Ings
- Parson's Carr
- Reedy Holmes
- Short Gate
- Stancil Carr
- Stump Cross
- Tofield Rd
- Wadworth Grange
- Wadworth Hall
- Wellingley Holt
- Whirly Pool
- White Cross Grange
- Windmill Hill