Sheering
Major Settlement in the Parish of Sheering
Historical Forms
- Sceringā 1086 DB
- Scheringes 1248 Ass
- Chering(e) 1166 RBE 1274 RH
- Cher(r)yng(e) 1344 Cl 1428 FA
- Ser(r)inges 1212 RBE 1244 Fees
- Sering(e) 1235 Ass 1236 Fees 1240 FF
- Seryng (Sheringg) 1303 FA
- Shering(e) 1240 FF 1397 IpmR
- Sheryng 1322 Londin 1346 FA
- Shir(r)ing(g) 1254 Ass 1296 Ipm
- Shiryng(ge) 1363,1391 FF
- Shyryng 1373 Pat
- Sher(r)ing(es) t.Hy3 WalthamA
- Scherryngg (Sheryngg) 1303 FA
Etymology
Ekwall (PN in -ing 49) has suggested that this name may be derived from a pers. name connected with OE lēodscearu , and Karlström (109) suggests a pers. name Scær , or OE scearu (landscearu , 'boundary'), used in a topographical sense, but OE ear > ar in Essex. OE ear is occasionally represented by ME er but never by ir . The name must rather be compared with Sherington (PN Bk 38–9) and Sheringham (Nf), both derived from the OE pers. name Scīra . In the Bk name, i -forms are more numerous than here, but the i was shortened in the trisyllable, and was lowered to e as early as DB. Here, there must have been two types, Sherringes or Shirringes , with a short vowel in the trisyllable (note the doubled r ), and Shering , a dissyllable, in which the e from i was long, thus giving the modern pronunciation. Cf. also Shearing Place infra 410. For the French ch , s for sh v. IPN 113.