Shellingford
Major Settlement in the Parish of Shellingford
Historical Forms
- Scaringaford 931 BCS683 c.1200
- Serengeford 1086 DB
- Sceringeford c.1240 Abingdon
- Scæringaford c.1200 Abingdon
- Schalingef', Schalengeford' 1220 Fees
- Salengeford' 1229–30 FF
- Salingeford' 1235 Cl
- Schallingeford' 1241 Ass
- Shallingeford' 1242–3 Fees
- Shalingford' (p), Schalingford' 1241 Ass
- Shallingford 1242–3 Fees
- Sal(l)ingford 1275–6 RH
- Schalingford 1284 Ass
- Scalingford' 1295 SR
- Schalingford' 1327 ib
- Shalyngford 1338,1342 Pat 1405 Fine 1517 DInc
- Shalyngford Nywebury, Shalyngford Bleobury 1424–5 ObAcc
- Shelynford, Shelingford', Selingford' 1284 Ass
Etymology
Perhaps 'ford of the people of *Scear', v. -inga-, ford , and cf. Wallingford 535 for this type of p.n., and Ch 1 220 for the postulated pers.n. Ekwall (DEPN and PN -ing) compares Sheering Ess with Shellingford. Alternatively, the first el. of Shellingford could be a group-name derived from a topographical use of OE scear 'plough- share'. The parish lies in a triangle of raised land formed by the Ock and one of its tributaries. The actual ford was presumably a crossing- place on a smaller tributary which flows through the village.
The substitution of -l - for -r - is a common AN change.
The descent of the two manors, known in the 15th cent, as 'Shellingford Newbury' and 'Shellingford Blewbury', is traced in VCH iv, 475–6. Blewbury is from Sir John de Blewbury , who held this manor c. 1370, and Newbury perhaps because the manor included the land called Little Newbury infra .