Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Tibecel 1086 DB

• Tibb(e)s(c)helf(e), Tybb(e)s(c)helf(e), Tybb(e)self 1179 ChancR 1212 RBE 1226,1240 FF 1441 StLK

• Tibbeshall als Tybb(e)self 1553 DbAxxvii

• Tibbesshelf 1328 SR 1329 Cl

• Tibbes(c)hulf(e), Tybbes(c)hulf(e) 1312 Pap 1318,1319 RegLich

• Tybbisshulf 1315 Pat

• Tibisself 1179 P

• Tib(e)s(c)helf(e), Tyb(e)s(c)helf(e), Tyb(e)scelf, Tyb(e)self, Tyb(e)chelf c.1200 WollCh 1204 Cur 1229 For 1243 Fees

• Tyb(e)schelw 1272 Ipm

• Tibess(c)helf, Tybess(c)helf 1316 StLK 1325 Pat 1325 Orig 1329 Ipm 1417 Cl

• Tybeschulf 1291 Tax

• Tibishulf 1316 Orig

• Tippeschel(f) 1297,1299 Ipm

• Tipschelf(f) 1430,1443,1447 del'Isle

• Tipshelf 1535 Val

Etymology

'Tibba's slope', v. scelf . Forms in -ss - may be purely scribal (for sh ), but with the occurrence of spellings with medial -i - (which is hardly likely to represent the OE  wk.gen. -an ) they may point to a strong form of the pers.n., OE  Tibb (gen.sg. Tibbes , ME  Tibbes , Tibbis ) rather than Tibba .