Chalbury
Major Settlement in the Parish of Chalbury
Historical Forms
- (on) cheoles burge (eastgeat) 946 Harl(S519) 14
- (in an) cheoles byris (east gete) 956 14 ib
- Chelesbyr' 1244 Ass
- Chelesber' 1280 ib
- Chelesbur' 1288 ib
- Chelesbury 1297 Cl 1297 Pat 1318 FF 1448 Marten
- Chelbury 1428 FA
- Cheselbur' 1288 Ass
- Cheselbury 1291 Tax
- Chesebury 1428 FA
- Chalesbury 1361 Pat 1386 IpmR
- Chalbury 1448 Marten 1558 PlR
- Chalbery 1501 Ipm 1535 VE 1575 PlR
- Challebury 1504 Marten
- Chawbery Eliz ChancP
- Chabury 1575 Saxton
- Chaldebery 1432 CampbCh
- Chelkesbury 1535 VE
Etymology
'Cēol's fortified place', from the OE pers.n. Cēol and burh (gen.sg. burge , byrig ), with reference to the hill-fort here. For the pers.n., cf. chelesbergh ' in Tarrant H. par. supra , a form tentatively identified with Chalbury by Fägersten 78 but which cannot belong here. The form byris in the 956 charter, silently 'corrected' to byrig in BCS 958, is probably an analogical gen.sg. in -s , cf. Campbell 253§ 625. The form Chese (l )- may be due to metathesis, but there may have been some confusion of the first el. with ceosol 'gravel', as also in later forms with ceald 'cold' and cealc 'chalk'.