English Place-name Society

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.

Terling

Major Settlement in the Parish of Terling

Historical Forms

  • Terlinges 1017–35,1042–66(12th) LibEl c.1050 KCD907 c.1200 Templars 1185 FF 1199–1239 RBE t.Hy3 Ass 1255
  • Terlinga(s), Terlingā 1086 DB
  • Terlenges 1262 Ipm
  • Tertlinces 1086 InqEl
  • Thirlinges 12th LibEl
  • Tyrlinge 1338 Ipm
  • Terling 1207–41 FF
  • Terlyng(ge) 1244 1308–29 Londin
  • Therling(g) 1218 ClR 1278 Cl
  • Therlyng 1341 ib
  • Terdlinge 1237 FF
  • Tarlinges 1238 Cl
  • Tarling(e) t.Hy8 Dugdiii 1601 Lancs 1718 EssPRiv
  • Terleford 1244 FF
  • Torling 1535 VE

Etymology

This name has been discussed by Ekwall (PN in -ing 50, RN 400, 409) who hesitated between a lost Tyrl -brook and a pers. name *Teorla as the source of the name. The new forms Tertlinces , Terdlinge (thrice repeated) suggest that a t has been lost from the name and that it is really an ingas- derivative from the OE  personal name Tyrhtel , which would in Essex appear as Terhtel . The river-name Ter (supra 12) is a back-formation.