Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Þyrefeld 796 BCS281 c.1250

• Tilleberie 1086 DB

• Tirefeld 1175 P c.1220 WellsR 1227 Ass 1231 Cl 1237–40 Fees 1284 FA 1326 Fine 1333 Cl

• Tyrefeud c.1218 WellsL 1227,1241,1246 Ass

• Tyrefeld 1227 Ass 1230 Cl c.1240 Mert 1242 Gross 1262 Ass 1315 Ch 1337 Pat 1339 Ipm

• Treffeld 1227 Ass

• Triffeud 1227 Ass

• Thyrefeld c.1240 Mert

• Turifeld c.1280 Mert

• Tyrifeld 1286 Mert

• Thurefeld 1329 Ipm

• Tirfeld 1422 ADi

• Turfeld 1445 Mert 1508 1526 LS 1548 Mert

• Thyrrefeld 1545 LP

• Turfield 1766 J

• Turville or Turfield 1826 B

Etymology

The Therfield identification in Birch is certainly wrong for Þyrefeld was a St Alban's manor and so was Turville, while Therfield (Herts) (Þerefeld in KCD 809) was a manor of Ramsey Abbey. The identification makes it clear that the first element is the ODan. Þýri (v. Björkman, Nordische Personennamen 164) but at the same time confirms the spurious ness of that charter for it is dated 796, long before we could get a Danish pers. name in an English place-name. v. Introd. xviii.The manor described as Tilleberie in DB is clearly Turville but the scribe must have got hold of the wrong name. One cannot but think that somehow or other he has got it confused with the not very distant Tilbury of Tilbury Wood , v. infra .