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.

Rixdale

Early-attested site in the Parish of Bishopsteignton

Historical Forms

  • Rixtiuele 1244 Ass
  • atte Rixthiuele 1299 Ass
  • Nytherryxstinele (sic) 1303 FA
  • Rixthyuele 1330,1333 SR
  • Rixtivell 1424 IpmR
  • Rixteuyll, Ryxthyvell 1436 BM
  • Rixtell 1725 Recov

Etymology

This is a compound of OE  rysc, 'rush,' and þȳfel , 'clump, tuft,' cf. to þam riscðyfele BCS 687.