Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Petlinge 1086 DB 1190 P 1283 Pat 1299 Ipm

• Petling c.1130 LeicSurv 1166 RBE 1205 Cur 1317 Rey 1319 Pat 1369 Wyg 1457 Ct

• Petlinga 1190 P

• Petlyng(e) 1236 Fine 1239 Cur 1277 Hastings 1284 Pat 1400 1428 FA 1535 VE

• Petlingis c.1131 Ord

• Petlinges c.1160 Dane 1166 LN 1203,1225,1227,1233 Cur 1236 Cl 1247 FineR

• Petlinguis 1190×1204 France

• Petlynges 1327 SR

• Pedling(e) 1193(p),1195 P 1196 ChancR 1205 P 1243 Fees

• Pedlynges 1196 ChancR 1197(p),1198(p),1199(p),1200 P

• Pedlinges 1237 RGros

• Pethling 1199 GildR e.Hy3 Derby

• Pethlyng(e) 1317 Ipm 1342 LCDeeds

• Petelyng 1247 Ass c.1291 Tax 1550,1564 Fine

• Peteling 1510,1518 Visit

• Peatlyng 1412 Banco 1507 Ipm 1576 Saxton 1594 Fine

• Peatling(e) 1576 LibCl

• Peatelyng 1528 Visit

• Peatelinge 1617 LML

• Peytlyng 1517 AAS

• Peytling 1526 1592 ISLR

• Magna ~ 1224 RHug 1243 Fees 1428 FA 1467 Wyg

• Magne ~ 1220 MHW

• ~ Magna 1241 Cur 1247 Ass 1592 ISLR 1617 LML

• Mykyll ~ 1431×42 MiD

• Much(e) ~ 1499 MiD c.1500 ECP

• Moche ~ 1507 Cl

• Great(e) ~ 1610 Speed 1708 Terrier

• Parva Petlinges 1225, 1226 Cur

• Parva Pedlinges 1237 RGros

Etymology

'(The settlement of) the family or followers of a man called Peotla', v. -ingas . *Pēotlingas is a folk-name which survives also in adjoining Peatling Parva infra . The OE  masc. pers.n. Pēotla is unrecorded but is presumably a diminutive of the recorded OE  Pēot . It is uncertain whether the earlier surviving plural forms refer to the two settlements of Peatling Magna and Peatling Parva or represent the original *Pēotlingas , although spellings such as Parva Petlinges 1225, 1226 Cur, Parva Pedlinges 1237 RGros incline to the latter.

Affixes are MLat  magna 'great', micel (muche), mikill and grēat q. v .