Shepreth
Major Settlement in the Parish of Shepreth
Historical Forms
- Esceprid(e) 1086 DB
- Sceperia, Scepereie, Sceperéé 1086 InqEl
- Scepere 1218 SR
- Sepeia 1086 ICC 1208 Cur
- Sepeie 1214 ib
- Syepe 1281 Ipm
- Schepeye 1291 Tax
- Sepere(e), Sepereye, Seperethe 12th AddCh 1218 SR 1299 QW
- Sepreye 13th Ely c.1330 ElyCouch
- Shepree 1214 Cur 1285 Ass
- Schepreye 1268 ib
- Shepreth(e) 1272,1285 Ass 1330,1396 FF
- Shepryth 1285 Ass
- Shepred 1389,1464 Pat 1666 CAPrxvii
- Shepredde 1553 EAvi
- Schepreth 1327 SR
- S(c)hepereth(e), S(c)heperyth(e), S(c)heperith 1231 FF 1428 FA
- S(c)heperith al. Shepryght 1513 LP
- S(c)heperede 13th Chateriz 1401 Pat t.Hy8 Rental
- S(c)heper(h)ey(e) 1262 Chateriz 1298 Ass
- S(c)heperhe(a)th 1290 FF 1339 Layer
- Seperleye 1265 Pat
- Chepereye 1266 ib
- Sepereth 1412 FA
- Scepereth 1345 CWool
- S(c)hipereye 1272 Ass
- S(c)hipereth 1298 ib
- Shipreth 1299 QW
Etymology
'Brook of the sheep' (OE scēapa -rīð ), perhaps 'brook where sheep were washed,' v. scēap , rīþ . For the loss of th in the early forms cf. Odsey supra 62.