English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

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.

Places in the same Parish