Fyfield
Major Settlement in the Parish of Fyfield
Historical Forms
- (æt) Fif Hidum 956 BCS977 c.1240
- (æt) Fifhidan 968 c.1200 ib
- Fivehide 1086 DB
- Fifhida c.1180 Oxoniensiav 1284 Ass
- Fifyd' 1220 Fees
- Fifide 1241 Ass
- Fiffyde 1316 FA
- Fyfeld 1517 DInc
Etymology
A common name, which appears also as Fifield (e.g. Pt 145) and Fifehead. It means 'five hides', and was presumably applied to an estate of that assessment. Surviving charters for Fyfield give much higher assessments. BCS 1221, which is a grant of the whole modern parish, gives 25 hides.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
Field
- Brake
- Carthouse Green
- Chalkcroft
- Cow Lane
- Cow Pen Common
- Cranmore
- Daglands Gate
- Dry Leys ( Dryleyes )
- The Hams
- Heath Hill Closes
- Higgins 's Lane
- Hill Bushes
- Home Fd
- Horsham Common
- Longlands
- Minmoor Common
- Moor Leaze
- Netherton Fields
- Old Lands
- Sour Mead
- Sparbury Hill
- Stanbro Copse
- Three Furlong Path
- Titlow Furze and Titlow Piece
- Tubworth Common
- West Fd ( Westfielde )
- Widemoor Common
- Wood Mead ( Wodmeade )
- Yethill Wood
- Ashcombes Hadland
- But ( t ) furlonge
- The Calves Close
- Challmore Hedge
- The Chauntery Howse
- Court Butts
- The Cowe Lease
- Fyeffyld Cowlease
- Dileaze Bushe Furlonge
- Dogden Furlonge
- Le Eight
- Little Elmefield
- Halterdiche Furlonge
- Hawcroft
- Horse Leaze
- Legge
- London Waye
- The Marshe Hades
- Midlefield
- Le Milnehouse
- Moreyn '
- Netherfeld
- Northmore North More
- Parsons Close
- Peningcroft
- Shepe Howse Close
- Smaleland Furlong and Smaleland End
- Towne Furlonge
- The Townsend
- West Leyes
- Westmeade
- Whom ( e ) Close
- Woodhurstclose
- Wydewere