Theale
Major Settlement in the Parish of Theale
Historical Forms
- Teile 1208 RSO 13th
- Thele 1220 Fees 1248–52 FF
- la þele 13th ReadingC
- La Thele 1272 ReadingC(2) 14th
- la Thel' 1284 Ass
- Theale vulgo Dheal 1675 Ogilby
- Theale 1763 PubLib
Etymology
v. þel 'plank', of which this is probably the pl. þelu . The same name occurs in So. The reference may be to a plank bridge across the Kennet, but Anderson (205) suggests that it could be to a structure used for the meetings of the Hundred. Dill Hundred Sx 435 appears to be named from such an erection.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Arrow Head
- Ashes Copse
- Bath Cottage
- Beansheaf Fm
- Blossoms End, Blossomsend Fm
- Calcot Gardens, Calcot Grange
- Calcot Mill
- College Cottage
- Deadman's Lane
- Feeding Moors
- The Filberts
- Ford's Fm
- The Grange
- Holy Brook
- Horn's Copse
- Horsemoor Wd
- Lidley Shaw
- Little Coppice
- Malpas Copse, Malpas Shaw
- Mead Plot
- North St
- The Poplars
- Railway Hotel P.H.
- Thatchers' Arms P.H.
- Theale Green
- Travellers' Friend P.H.
- Wigley Copse
- Yewtree Coppice