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.

Great Saling and Bardfield Saling

Major Settlement in the Parish of Great and Bardfield Saling

Historical Forms

  • Salinges 1086 DB 12th Caen 1247 FF 1282 Ipm
  • Salingues 1192 France
  • Salynges 1296 BM 1334 Ipm
  • Great Salingges ib.
  • Saling(e), Salyng(e) 1220 FF t.Hy3,1328 ADi
  • Bredefeld Salyng(e) 1330,1334 Ipm
  • Olde Salyng(e) 1382 FF
  • Great Salyng(e) alias Olde Salyng(e) 1489 ib
  • Moche Salyng(e), Myche Salyng(e), Litill Salyng(e), Olde Salyng(e) 1512 EASix
  • Berdefeld Salyngg(e) 1321 BM
  • Salling' 1227 Fees
  • Sallynge 1344 Pat
  • Seling(e) 1234 FF 1254 Ass
  • Selinges (Sallingg) 1303 FA
  • Great Saylyng 1547 FF

Etymology

Saling is probably from OE  seal (h )ingas , 'dwellers by the sealh or willow.' Cf. PN in -ing 49. Great Saling was formerly called Old , and Bardfield Little Saling. v. Bardfield infra 504.

Places in the same Parish

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