Allexton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Allexton
Historical Forms
- Adelachestone 1086 DB
- Adelakeston(e) 1168 P 1211 ChancR 1214,1215 P
- Adelacston' c.1130 P
- Aðelacheston' 1167 P
- Athelakeston' 1222 ClR 1225 FineR 1269 For 1275 RGrav
- Athelakestun' 1241 Cl
- Adthelakestone 1226 RHug
- Hathelakeston' 1220 Pat 1220 Cur 1239 Lib 1239 Cl
- Hathelakestun' 1225,1226 ClR
- Aðelochestona 1167 ChancP
- Athelokeston' 1254 Val 1346 Pap 1362 Ipm 1388 Misc
- Atelokeston 1228 Pat 1301 Coram
- Hathelokeston 1236 Fees 1338 Pat
- Athelaxton 1252 Derby 1267 Cur 1385 Banco
- Atheloxton' 1276 Pat 1327 SR 1373 Ipm 1375 Ass
- Athelocston 1313 Cl 1313 Ipm
- Adelokeston' 1254 Val 1328 BelCartB e.15
- Adelokiston 1376 Cl
- Adelokston c.1291 Tax 1375 Ipm 1376 Cl
- Adlakeston(e) 1211 P 1226 RHug 1277 Abbr
- Adlokiston' 13 BHosp
- Adloxton' 1333 Peake 1358 Pat 1451 Cl 1486 Ipm
- Adlaxton' 1405 PRep
- Adlaxston 1501 Cl
- Aselakeston(e) 1212 RBE 1220 MHW 1259 RGrav
- Aslaketon 1209×35 RHug
- Alakestona l.12 BM
- Halakestona l.12 Dane
- Al(l)okeston' 1361 Pat 14 WoCart 1449
- Alhokeston 1378 Pat
- Alexton Hy2 AllS 1318 Pat 1509 Deed 1576 Saxton 1610 Speed
- Al(l)oxton 1327 SR 1331 MiD 1428 FA 1453 Cl
- Al(l)oxton 1327 SR 1331 MiD 1428 FA 1453 Cl
- Al(l)axton 1518 Visit 1535 VE 1576 LibCl 1578 LEpis
- Allaxson 1552,1553 Moulton
Etymology
'Æðllāc's farmstead, village', v. tūn . The OE pers.n. Æðellāc is otherwise unrecorded. Ekwall DEPN offers, rather, the OE pers.n. Ēadlāc which occurs once only (v. Searle 182), but the shortening of Ēad - >Æd ->Ad - is not evidenced in DB material (v. Feilitzen 60). Note that some early spellings may have been influenced by the ON pers.n. Áslákr (ODan Aslak ) and by the ME pers.n. Havelok (an Anglicized form of the Irish Abloc ), that of the hero of the popular medieval romance 'The Lay of Havelock the Dane' which is set in neighbouring Lincs., particularly in Lincoln itself. The form Allaxson shows typical 16th cent. (and later) Leics. loss of t in the group -ston .