Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• molend' aquat' de Treuele 1287 Ass

• Trenelemulle (sic for Treuelemulle) 1373 BrCh

• Trivelmylles 1492,1512 Comp

• molend' voc' Trivel 1492 ib

• Trevilmede, Trivilmede 1492,1512 ib

• Trivel 1154–89 Berk

Etymology

Trivel Mills (lost), molend ' aquat ' de Treuele 1287Ass , Trenelemulle (sic for Treuelemulle )1373 BrCh 152, Trivelmylles 1492, 1512 Comp 174, 257, molend ' voc ' Trivel 1492 ib 256, cf. also the f.n. Trevilmede , Trivilmede 1492, 1512 ib 162–3; there was also a stream called Trivel 1154–89 Berk. These mills were water-mills of St Augustine's Abbey (Comp 174); there can be little doubt that the first el. is an OE  trifel , connected with OE  trifelung 'grinding, pounding' and trifulian 'to bruise, stamp', and used of a corn-grinding mill; these words are ultimately connected with Lat  trībulāre 'to press hard, to vex'.