Tilehurst
Major Settlement in the Parish of Tilehurst
Historical Forms
- Tigelherst 1167 P 1342 Pat
- Tylhurst 1224–5 Ass
- Tyelhurst, Telhurst 1284 ib
- Tyleherst 1517 DInc 1675 Ogilby
- Tilehurst (Common) 1761 Rocque
- Tygheleshurst 1295 Ipm
Etymology
OE tigel 'tile' and hyrst 'wooded hill'. tigel occurs in a number of p.ns., usually in allusion to places where tiles were made. The charter no. 415 in Hurley is a grant dated 1348 by Roger le Tyghelere of Tyughurst . A tegularia near Whitley Park (Reading) is mentioned in a deed of 1182 in ReadingC (3 ).
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Alder Copse
- Back Lane
- Barefoots Barn, Barefoots Copse
- Beal's Copse, Beal's Fm, Beal's Plantation
- Great Birch Copse, Little Birch Copse
- Boxgrove Cottage, Boxgrove Wood
- Broomhill
- Bushnells Copse
- Calcot Park, Calcot Row
- Churchend Copse
- The City
- Clay Copse
- Cornwell Copse
- Curtis's Wood
- Dark Lane
- Denefield
- Garston's Copse
- Hall
- Hallplace Fm
- Hall's Copse
- Harefield Copse
- High Copse
- Hildens Copse
- Kiln Copse
- Langley Hill
- Little Heath
- Long Lane
- Longleat
- Maybough Pit
- Mount Skyver Wood
- Nabbs Hill
- Oliver's Copse
- Pincent's Fm, Pincent's Lane
- Pinkclose Plantation, Pink's Grove
- Sadler's Fm
- Stoneham Fm
- Turnham's Fm
- Vicarage Copse, Vicarage Wood
- White Hart P.H.
- Withy Copse