Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Teu(e)leshevit, Tev(e)leshevit, -heved 1220–6 Cockers 1231 CWxxvi,306 1245–65 Cockers 1366 Pat

• -hed 1461 Pat

• Tevelneshed, Teuelished 1470 Kendii,313

• Touelhis heved 1200–26 Cockers

• Taulesheved 1231 CWxxvi,306

• Tenelished 1250–70 Kendii,344

• Ten(y)lshed(e) 1451,1461,1501 CockersRent

• Tenlesheued 1292 Ass4

• Tenleshed(e) 1461 Pat 1466 FF

• Thenylshed 1537 CockersRent

• Tenelside 1561 FF

• Tend(e)lesheued 1279 Ass4,7d

• Telnesheued 1292 Ass21

• Telnyshed 1560 FF

• Teyneshed 1467 Richm

• Telyssett 1546 MaryP

• Telesett, Telisett 1547 MinAcct 1550 Views 1640 Kendii,322

• Tearside 1763 PR(Md)

• Tearnside 1721 PR(KL) 1760 Glebe

• Ternside 1726 Kendiii,283

Etymology

There is ambiguity in the ME  spellings between Teu -(Tev -) and Ten -, and palæographically either could be correct, though the 1279 Tendeles - and the preservation of -n - in the later contracted forms would favour Ten -. The OE word tǣnel (ModE  dial. (La, Lonsdale) teanel ) always denotes 'a wicker basket, an osier fish-basket' or the like (as do cognate words like Goth  tainjō ), but OE  tǣnel may also have denoted 'a place where osiers were got', as in Tanholt (Nth 235), cf. OE  tān 'shoot', Du  teen 'osier', and the suffix –el in EPN i, 149; the p.n. composition, however, offers some difficulty, v. hēafod 'headland', here probably the head of a small valley or stream.