English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Falfield

Major Settlement in the Parish of Falfield

Historical Forms

  • Falefeld(e) 1227 FF 1287 Ass 1305 Pat 1497 FF
  • Falefild als. Fawfyld 1570 FF
  • Falfeld 1232,1445 FF 1533 MinAcct
  • Falfield als. Fafeld als. Faviell 1570 FF
  • Falfeild als. Fawfeild 1630 InqM
  • Valefeld' 1318,1325 FF 1497 AOMB 1505 Pat
  • Faleueld(e) 1353,1489 FF
  • Fawefylde 1555 FF
  • Fawfield 1611 PR
  • Favyld 1572 FF
  • Faulfeild 1595 FF

Etymology

'The pale-brown or fallow tract of open country', v. fealu , feld .On the forms Vale - and -uelde cf. Phonol. § 34 (a ).