Wrestlingworth
Major Settlement in the Parish of Wrestlingworth
Historical Forms
- Wrastlingewrd c.1150 BM
- Wrastlingeworde Hy2 BM 1198 FF
- Westlingewurda 1194 P
- Wrastlingewurde 1195 P
- Wrestligewrde 1197 FF
- Wrestlingewurth 1212 BM
- Wrastlingewrdh 1220 LS
- Wrestlingeworth 1227 Ch
- Wrastlingwrthe 1227 Ass
- Wraxlingwurth 1232 Cl
- Wrastlingworth 1232 Cl 1234 Pat
- Wrestlingwurth 1234 Cl
- Wrestlyngworth or Wrastlyngworth 1335 Ipm
- Warslyngwrth 1291 Tax
- Warstlyngworth 1291 NI
- Wraxlingworth 1434 IpmR
Etymology
For this name Skeat aptly quotes the p.n. Wræstles hyll or Wrestleshyll (Berks) found in BCS 789. These names point to an OE pers. name Wrǣstel , Wrǣstla , a derivative of OE wrǣste 'delicate, noble' or of wrǣstan 'to twist,' but no such name is known elsewhere. The whole name in OE must have been Wræstlingaworþ , meaning 'enclosure of Wræstel's people.' v. worð .
Places in the same Parish
None