Pleshey
Major Settlement in the Parish of Pleshey
Historical Forms
- Plaseiz c.1150 Ch(Facs)
- Plassiz 12th LibEl
- Plaisseiz c.1230 HH
- Plessiz 1373 Pat
- Plessitz 1377 ib
- Plassetum 1212 RBE
- de Plesseto, in Plesseto 1218 Bracton 1236–44 FF 1428 FA
- Plesset' 1227 Lib
- Plesset' Castle 1331 Pap
- (ad) Plessetum 1233 Bracton
- Plessetys 1271 FF
- Plessetis 1322–33 Londin
- Plecys 1274 Ipm
- Plecy alias Playsshey 1559 FF
- Alta Estre voc. la Plesse 1291 For
- Pleshe 1298 Ipm
- Plasshe 1346 FA 1439 Pat
- Plesch(s) 1393 DKRxliii 1444 Pat
- Pless(e)y 1302 Ch 1399 IpmR 1428 FA
- Plessi 1347 Cl 1376 Pat
- Plessye 1399 IpmR 1421 LancsCh
- Plasses 1330 Londin
- Plessissh 1341 NI
- Plesshis 1363 IpmR
- Plesshez 1393 DKRxliii
- Plasseyton 1346 FA
- Plasshete 1360 Pat
- Pleshey 1402 IpmR
- Plas(s)hey 1412 FA 1557 FF 1700 EssPRiv
Etymology
A Norman-French name. Le plessis ou plessier was part of a forest enclosed by a fence of living wood with interlacing branches (Delisle, L ' Agriculture en Normandie au moyen âge 346).In Norman patois plesse means 'branch of a hedge bent back towards the centre of an enclosure for purposes of fortification.'plessis is used of an enclosure thus formed or of a coppice “entourée de haies plessées ” (Moisy, Noms de Famille Normands 365). This Norman name was given to the extensive earthworks which formed the head of the Mandeville Honour. Cf. Plashett (PN Sx 356), Plashet (PN Sr 280), Plessey (PN NbDu 158), Plashes in Standon (Herts), Plasset in Besthorpe (Nf), Platch (PN He 153) and Plashet Grove supra 95. Cf. also Playshye fielde , Playshie grove (in Canewdon)1579Survey .