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.

Sidbury

Major Settlement in the Parish of Sidbury

Historical Forms

  • (æt) sydebirig 1050–72 Earle
  • Sideberi(a) 1086 DB c.1150 StNicholas 1303 FA
  • Sydebiry 1262 BM
  • Sydebury 1316 FA
  • Siddebir 1238 Ass
  • Sudebiry 1305 FF
  • Sytebury 1377 SR
  • Sedebury 1394 DCoNQ3,47

Etymology

'burh by the river Sid' (supra 12). The burh is the earthwork known as Sidbury Castle.