Deerhide
Early-attested site in the Parish of Boarstall
Historical Forms
- Derhyde 1260 Pat 1285 QW 1289 Ipm
- la Derhide 1276 RH
Etymology
v. deor , hid . This 'hide' was supposed to have been granted to Nigel, lord of Boarstall, by Edward Confessor together with the hereditary custody of Bernwood Forest, in reward for his slaying of a formidable boar. Whatever the truth of this story of the hide it is clear that it can gain no support from the name of Boarstall itself for the first element in that name clearly has nothing originally to do with boar (OE bār ).