Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• æt Eades byrig 914 ASC

• æt Eades birig 914 FW 1130

• Eadsbury 914 Orm2 1656 914 1672 ib

• Edesberie 1086 DB

• Edesberi l12 Chol

• Edesbery 1671 Sheaf

• Edesbur' c.1310 Chest

• Edesbury 1331 Plea 1666 Sheaf

• Edesbury in foresta iuxta Cestriam 14 Higden

• Edesbury hull 1365 Tourn

• Edisbury 1260 Court 1813 Orm2

• Edisbury in þe forest bysides Chestre 15 Trev

• Eddingburie 1298 Harl. 17

• Eddisburgh 1307 Eyre

• Eddisbury 1404 ChRR

• Eddisbury Lodge 1817 EnclA

• Eddysbury 1554 Sheaf

• Edersbury 1387 ChRR

• Eddesbury 1388 ChRR 1819 Sheaf

• Eddesbury hill 1783 ib

• Eddesbury in the parish of Delamere 1819 ib

• Endysbury 1397 ChRR

• Edusbury 1468 MinAcct

• Elborough now called Edsbury 1574 Sheaf

• Erdesbury alias Edesbury 1650 ParlSurv

• Edsbury 1574 Sheaf 1656 Orm2 1683 Sheaf

• Headberry Jas1 Map

Etymology

'Ēad's stronghold', from an OE  pers.n. Ēad and burh (dat.sg. byrig ), with hyll and loge . The pers.n. appears in Edgeley, Edeshal (x )h 309, 326infra , Adisham K (DEPN, PNK 520). The p.n. is that of the Iron-age hill fort on Eddisbury Hill, which Æþelflǣd lady of the Mercians garrisoned in 914, cf. Castle Ditch infra . The place became the capital of a hundred in the twelfth century, v. 160supra , and was the chief lodge of the Forest of Delamere 18, cf. Merrick's Hill infra . Cf. also notes 210 supra . The p.n. recurs at Eddisbury 1139.