Tingrith
Major Settlement in the Parish of Tingrith
Historical Forms
- Tingrei 1086 DB
- Tyngri, Tingri, Tyngry, Tingry(e) 1220 LS 1227 Ass 1247 Ass 1365 Cl
- Tingerithe 1247 Ass
- Tyngrithe, Tyngryth, Tingrith 1276 Ass 1331 Ipm 1390–2 CS 1509 ADv
- Tyngre 1346,1428 FA 1489 Ipm
- Tingryffe 15th HMCVariv 1605 NQii
- Tyngreve 1504 Ipm
- Tyngriff, Tyngryff, Tingrif 1526 LS 1535 VE 1566 BM
- Tingreth 1598 D Eliz ChancP
- Tyngrave 1626 HMCiv 1646 NQiii
- Tyngeriff c.1690 Strip
Etymology
This is clearly from OE þing and rið, the whole name meaning 'assembly-brook.' As we have seen above (p. 113) the name is peculiarly apt as the meeting-place of the Hundred of Manshead was by this brook. For the change of the suffix to -riff , Wyld gives interesting parallels, Lambeff for Lambeth and the well-known Redriff of Gulliver for Rotherhithe (Colloquial English 291). Curiously enough in the neighbouring county of Bucks, in Fingest (PN Bk 176), it is the initial th of thing which is changed to f . The change of initial th to t in this name may well have been due to official Anglo-Norman usage in connexion with the Hundred Court.