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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Tinkley Down

Early-attested site in the Parish of Berwick St John

Etymology

Tinkley Down (6″). Cf. (to ) tilluces leage 955 (14th) BCS 917, Tynckley copp '1567AddCh , Tynkeley copice 1570 PembSurv.'Woodland or clearing of Tilluc ,' a diminutive of the personal name Tilli .