Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Wallefeld et Hulm' c.1262 Dav

• Wallefilde et Hulm' 1290 Ipm

• Wallefeld et Hulme 1290 IpmR

• Wallefeld E1 Orm2 1307 Plea 1361 Orm2

• Wallefelt 1344 ChRR

• Walefeld 1290 Ipm

• Walfield 1361 Orm2

• Walfyld, Walfild 1547 ChRR

• Watfield 1724 NotCestr

• Hulm 1290 Ipm

• Hulm iuxta Wallefeld 1307 Plea

• Hulme 1296 Tab 1337 Plea

• Hulme iuxta Davenport 1458 Orm2

• Hulle et Walmefeld 1295 Lacy 1306 MinAcct

• Hulm et Wallefeld, Hulm et Wallefeld iuxta Congelton 1319,1337 Plea

• Hulme et Walfeld 1430 Dav

• Walfeild, Walfeild alias Hulme Walfeild 1626 Sheaf

• Holme et Walfeld 1527 Plea

• Hulm-Wallefeld 1338 Plea

• Hulme-Wallefeld 1393 Orm2

• Hulmewalfleld 1413 ChRR

• Hulmewalfleld alias Welfield alias Walkfield 1591 Orm2

• Hulmewalfeild 1612 ib

• Hulmewalfelde 1489 ChRR

• Hulmewalfeld, Hulmewalfild 1513 ib

• Hulmwalfeld 1576 ib

• Hulmwalfield 1742 Sheaf

• Holm Wallfyld 1515 Orm2

• Holme Walfeld 1543 Plea

• Homewalfeld, Homewalfild 1525 ChRR

Etymology

'The island, the water-meadow', v. hulm ; and 'the open land at a spring', v. wælla , wælm , feld . The township consists of two manors. The form Walme - argues against a derivation from wall 'a wall', suggested by the account of a fortification here in 1725 thought to be Roman and on a Roman road from Middlewich to Astbury, v. Orm2 iii71.