Trewsbury Ho
Early-attested site in the Parish of Coates
Historical Forms
- Tvrsberie 1086 DB
- Trussebur(i), Trusseb'y, Trussebir', Trussebyry 1211–13,1220 Fees 1222 FF 1248 Ass 1285 FA 1287 QW 1327 SR
- Trusebury, Trusebury iuxta Cotes 1307,1369,1474 FF
- Trosbury 1327 SR
- Trouesbury 1349 GlR
- Trewesbury 1475–80 ECP
- Treuesbery 1483–5 AOMB411
- Treuesbury 1483 IpmR
- Trewsbery 1599 FF
- Trewsbury 1779 Rudder
Etymology
Probably 'fortification overgrown with brushwood', v. trūs , burh .The earlier spellings of the first el. are similar to those of Trusley (Db 613), but the later ones Troues -, Treues -, Trews - appear to have been influenced by forms like trow , trewe for OE trēow 'tree' (cf. Phonol. § 29). There is some question of the vowel-length of OE trūs 'brushwood', but ME trous (e ) suggests that it was long (cf. NED s.v. trouse and W. H. Stevenson, Transactions of the Philological Society (1898), 15). This is the site of an encampment with a double ditch, to which burh refers.