Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Titlestrop 714 BCS130 16th

• Tedestrop 1086 DB

• Tatlestrop(e) 11 KCD1367 c.1200 Ch 1251 RH 1276 Rent248 1374

• Tatlesthrop(e) 1315 HMCv,327 1338 Ipm 1376 FF 1392 Ipm

• Tatlesthorp 1327 SR 1337 BM

• Tattlest(h)rop 1291 Tax, Episc

• Tattelestrop 1292 ib

• Tatelesthorp(e) 1338 Orig 1590 FF

• Tatilstrope c.1603 TRMB

• Tetlestropt 1221 Eyre

• Tetlestrope e.13 ChronEv

• Thatlestrope, Thetillestroppe 13 ChronEv

• Tadelecthorpe (sic) 1287 QW

• Tadelest(h)rop 1298 Episc 1328 Banco 1413 ADiii

• Tadlestrop 1334 Heref

• Tadilthorp 1577,1610 M

• Attlesthorpe 1330 Heref

• Athilthorp(e), Athylthorp(e) 1535 VE 1545 LP 1552 FF

• Athylthorp(e) als. Addelstroppe 1627 FF

• Athilthroppe 1597 Talbot

• Edelstrop 1599 PR

• Adlesthrope als. Adelsthorpe als. Tatelsthrope 1626 FF

• Ad(d)lestrop 1684 PR 1685 ib

Etymology

In view of the early spellings with initial T - there can be little doubt that the original form of the name was Tat (e )les-throp ; the later form Attle -, Adle -, etc. arises from a wrong analysis of phrases like 'at Tatlesthrop' (cf. æt, atten in EPN i, 6, 13 and Phonol. § 45).'Tǣtel's dependent farmstead', v. þrop (cf. Hatherop 36supra ).The OE  pers.n. Tǣtel is not on record, unless the name of a Mercian moneyer Tatel (Searle) is a variant of it, but it occurs in p.ns. like Tetilles wode (iii, 172 infra ), Talton (Wo 173), which is 9 miles north of Adlestrop, and Tatsfield (Sr 337), and is a derivative in -el of the recorded OE  Tāta (Redin 54).