Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Upsidelinch 1230 FF

• Vpsidelinch(') 1244,1288 Ass

• Vpsedelinch 1288 ib

• Up Sidelinch 1346 FA

• Upseteling 1235–6 Fees

• Vpsedeling' 1268 Ass

• Upsedeling 1282 Cl

• Upsideling(') 1238 Drew 1288 Ass 1324 Pat

• Vp(e)sideling(') 1244,1280,1288 Ass

• Vp(e)sidelyng' 1268 ib

• Up Sydeling(e), Upsydeling(e) 1280,1293 Winch 1300 Pat 1431 FA

• Hopsideling 1301 Drew

• Upsidelingg 1312 FF

• Upe Sydelyng 1428 FA

• Upsidlinge 1310,1324 Inqaqd 1634 Hutch3

• Vp Sydling 1664 HTax

• Up Sydling 1795 Boswell

• Upper Sydling 1811 OS 1939 Kelly

• Up Sydling Farm 1839 TA

• Up-Sydling 1870 Hutch3

Etymology

'The upper of higher manor of Sydling', with the affix upp 'up, higher up' to distinguish it from Brodesideling , the earlier name for Sydling StN., v. par. name supra . Up Sydling is 'higher up' than Sydling St N. and is also 'higher upstream' on Sydling Water, a tributary of R. Frome, which rises here (spring marked 6″). There was formerly a chapel here (v. Chapel infra ), and there is mention of a watermill here in 1279 Drew (cf. the DB mill at the adjacent hamlet of Fifehead Sydling supra ).