Frolesworth
Major Settlement in the Parish of Frolesworth
Historical Forms
- Frelesworde 1086 DB
- Frelesworth Hy1 Nichols 1294 MiD
- Frellesworde 1086 DB 1209×19 RHug
- Frelleswortha 1209×19 ib
- Frellesworth 1220 MHW e.14 Peake
- Frelleswrth 1230×60 Goodacre
- Frellusworth a.1300 ib
- Fredleswurð 1175 ChancR
- Fredlesuuða 1175 P
- Fredleswurða 1176 ib
- Frolliswrthe c.1130 LeicSurv
- Frollisworthe 1276 Goodacre 1313 Pat
- Frolleswrth 1208 FF 1254 Val c.1280,1275×96 Goodacre
- Frollesworth(e) 1235 Cl 1261 RGrav 1305 GildR 1312 Peake 1547,1549 Pat
- Frolesworth 1518 Visit 1535 VE 1576 Saxton
- Frowlesworth 1611,1614 LML
- Froulesworth 1627 ib
Etymology
'The enclosure belonging to a man called Freothuwulf or Freothulf', v. worð . The OE masc. pers.n. Freoðuwulf gave the recorded shortened form Freoðulf .
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- The Almshouses
- The Brindles
- Broughton Rd
- Church Hill Fm
- Claybrooke Grange, Claybrooke Grange Fm
- Fosse Fm
- Frolesworth Hill
- Frolesworth Ho
- Frolesworth Lodge
- Gables Fm
- Hall Fm
- The Hollies
- Home Fm
- The Homestead
- Leire Rd
- Lodge Fm, Frolesworth Lodge
- Lodge Farm Cottages
- Main St
- Manor Fm
- Plough and Harrow
- The Rectory
- Royal Oak
- St Nicholas's Church