Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Flechenie 1086 DB

• Flecheneia c.1160 Dane

• Flec(c)henai 1166 LN

• Flecheneya 1246×49 BM

• Flecneya c.1125 Sloane c.1225 LeicSurv c.1130

• Flekeneye c.1130 LeicSurv 1249 Cur 1306 Peake 1387 Banco 1397 Cl

• Flekenai 1166 RBE

• Flekeneia 1192,1230 P

• Flekeneie 1230 ChancR 1247 Hastings

• Flekeney Hy3 Crox 1288 Banco 1537 CoPleas 1539 MinAccts

• Fleckenai 1166 LN 1166 RBE

• Fleckeneya 1230 P

• Fleckeneye 1242 Fees 1317 Cl 1360 Peake

• Fleykeneye p.1250 ib

• Flekney 1220 MHW 1239 Cur 1384 Coram 1435 Wyg 1548 Fine 1576 Saxton

• Flecney(e) 1375 Wyg 1489 Banco 1540,1548 Fine

• Fleckney 1467 Wyg 1540 MinAccts 1544 Ipm 1610 Speed

Etymology

Probably 'Flecca's piece of raised dry ground in surrounding wet land', v. ēg , cf. Flecknoe Wa 150. Fleckney lies in a shallow valley, the parish still retaining much standing water. The OE  masc. pers.n. Flecca is unrecorded. Ekwall DEPN suggests that if the first el. is not a pers.n., it may be an unrecorded OE sb. fleca 'a hurdle', the source of fleke , a side-form of ME  flake 'hurdle' (found from the 13th cent.), hence 'raised dry ground in surrounding wet land where wood for hurdles is obtained'.