Streatley
Major Settlement in the Parish of Streatley
Historical Forms
- Stretlea c.690 BCS c.1200
- Stretleæ 687 c.1200 ib
- Stretleg' 1224–5 Ass 1535 VE
- Stretele c.1290,1295 Gor
- Streteley 1535 VE
- Estralei 1086 DB
- Straleghe c.1250 Gor
- Stradlea 1167,1176 P c.1181 Gor
- Stradleg' 1200 P
- Stradle(ie) 1230–1 MemR
- Stradlegh' 1241 Ass
- Stratle 1218 Bract c.1250 Ass 1284
- Stredle 1241 Ass
- Stredley(e) 1275–6 RH
- Streyteley 1524 AD
- Streytley 1535 VE
- Streatly 1583 ChanProc
Etymology
'Wood or clearing by a Roman road', v. strǣt , lē(a)h. For an account of this road v. Margary 150 ff.
The modern spelling represents the same pronunciation as -ea - in threat . The forms from 1524 and 1535 suggest that the vowel was long in the early 16th cent.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Ash Copse
- Batt's Barn
- Beechcroft Shaw
- The Beeches
- Bennet's Wd
- Bottom Barn
- Bowles's Pit
- Broomclose Shaw
- Bull Hotel
- Checkendon Wd
- College Wd
- Common Wd
- Coombe Bottom
- The Coombe
- Costrills Copse
- Field Barn
- Fir Copse
- Gould's Fm
- Green Hill
- Growcroft Copse
- The Hawthorns
- Henclose Copse
- High St
- Hill Ho
- The Holies, Holies Shaw, Holies Hanging, Holies Walk Wd, High Holies Wd
- Hurdle Shaw
- Ilsley Rd
- Kiddington Shaw
- Lardon
- Lewingdon Wd
- Linksdown
- Longclose Shaw
- Lough Down
- Manor Fm
- Mutton Copse
- New Buildings
- Newtown
- North Lands
- Papist Bushes
- Parsonage Wd
- Ponds Pightle
- Portobello Wd
- Reading Rd
- The Rest
- The Rise
- Sheephouse Shaw
- Southridge Fm and Southridge Pightle
- Stitchens Green
- Stonefield Shaw
- Streatley Fm and Streatley Warren
- Streatley Hill and Streatley Ho
- Streatley Pk Ho
- Thurle Down and Thurle Grange
- Townsend Fm and Townsend Rd
- Tullsclose Shaw
- Wallingford Rd, Wantage Rd
- Warren Fm
- Westridge Green
- Westridge Green Fm, Westridge Copse and Westridge Fm
- West Ridgeway
- Wynders Cottage and Wynders Plantation