Theddingworth
Major Settlement in the Parish of Theddingworth
Historical Forms
- Tedingesworde 1086 DB
- Tevlingorde 1086 DB
- Tediworde, Dedigworde 1086 DB
- Thaingewrtha c.1200 Sloane
- Teingeworth 1200 Cur
- Teingewrthe 1201 Pleas 1201 Cur
- Tedingewrth' 1206 ib
- Thedingewrth' 1207 ib
- Theingurda c.1140 BM
- Theingwrtha 1154×58 Ch 1340 Dugd Hy2
- Theingworth 1156 Ch 1318 MHW 1220 Dugd 1272 RH 1276
- Theyngwrth 1276 ib
- Taingwurda 1140 Reg Stephen Ch 1340
- Tainguurda c.1155 Dane
- Taingwrde l.12 ib
- Taingwrth Hy2 Dugd
- Teingwrth 1200 Cur 1201 Abbr 1202 FF
- Teingworth(e) 1201 Nichols c.1253 RHug 1269 RGrav
- Tedingwrth 1208 FF 1209 Fine
- Tedingwurth 1250 Cur
- Tedyngworth 1330 FA 1361 Cl
- Teddyngworth' 1524 Braye
- Tedingworth 1535 VE 1539 MinAccts
- Thedingwrþe c.1130 LeicSurv
- Thedingworth(e) 1242 Fees 1247 Abbr 1299 Banco 1302 Pat 1373,1385 Banco 1580 LEpis 1607 LML
- Thedyngworth(e) 1232,1252 Fine 1313 Pat 1323 Banco 1489,1497 Braye 1538 Fine 1556 Braye
- Thedyngwurth 1250 Cur
- Theddingworth 1340 Peake 1610 Speed
- Theddyngworth 1346 Pat 1540 MinAccts
Etymology
Possibly 'the enclosure of þēoda's or Tēoda's people', v. -inga-, worð . The OE masc. pers.n. þēoda is unrecorded but appears to be a short form of dithematic pers.ns. in þēod - such as þēodgār and þēodwulf . The form Tēoda , perhaps another shortened style of such pers.ns., does occur independently (as in 687 (12) BCS 89 (S 233) and 688 (12) BCS 72 (S 235)). However, the unique DB spelling Tedingesworde presents a genitive singular composition-joint which may well be significant, especially as a local Thedyngesthorp is recorded in 1327.
Watts CDEPN s. n. suggests as an alternative derivation for Theddingworth an earlier OE p.n. base *Thēoding ('a place called after Theoda'), from the pers.n. þeoda plus the p.n.-forming suffix -ing 2 , hence the meaning of the whole being 'the enclosure of Theoding'.Whether he intends the enclosure to be *Thēoding itself or at a location away from it is unclear. However, any proposed p.n. constructed of a pers.n. plus -ing2 is open to serious doubt.
A more satisfactory explanation of Theddingworth is to take þēoding Tēoding as an OE masc. pers.n. from þēoda Tēoda with an -ing suffix; -ing 3 was commonly used in the formation of singular pers.ns. such as Dēoring (from Dēor ), Hemming (from Hemma ) and Lulling (from Lulla ).Theddingworth would then mean 'þēoding's or Tēoding's enclosure', v. worð , and Thedyngesthorp 'þēoding's or Tēoding's outlying farmstead', v. þrop , þorp , where the generic may be the survival of a metathesized OE prop rather than the common ON þorp , in an area of the Danelaw with only minimal Scandinavian influence.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- All Saints' Church
- Boat
- Bosworth Rd
- Crick's Lodge
- Crown
- Damside Spinney
- Hare and Hounds
- Hothorpe Rd
- Ivy Lodge Fm
- Lodge Fm
- Mowsley Rd
- The Pear Tree
- Pebble Hall
- Theddingworth Hollow Spinney
- Theddingworth Lodge
- Theddingworth Station
- The Vicarage
Major Settlement
Field
- 2 Acre
- Barn Cl
- Birdwell
- Black Brook
- Blackmore Sick
- Bottom Cl
- Bradley
- Bridge Mdw
- Little Brook Holme
- Brook Mdw
- Canal Fd
- Caves Cl
- Cemetery Fd
- Charity Fd
- Chawntry
- Clover Cl
- Collins Mdw
- Corner Cl
- Cover Fd
- Big Cricks
- Big Damside
- Eight Acre Mdw
- Far Cl
- Foxen Gate
- Grazing Mdw
- North Great Cl
- Great Ground
- Green Dyke
- Green Lane
- Guildhall Cl West Guildhall Mdw
- Hanging Hill
- The Hassocks
- Hewitts Cl
- Home Cl Home Fd
- House Cl
- Old House Fd
- Left of Hovel
- Hubbard 's Orchard
- Jennkins Cl
- Kendalls Cl
- Kicklewell
- Kill Hill Little Kill Hill Mdw
- North Kingston ( e ) 's Mdw Kingston ( e ) 's Top Mdw
- Knights Cl
- Bottom Lees
- Little Cl
- Bottom Little Hill
- Lost Mdw
- Main Road Fd
- Bottom Marland South Marland
- Middle Hill
- Mill Cl Top Mill Cl
- Muson 's Cl
- The Nanalls West Nanhill Sim 's Nanhill
- New Cl
- Newlands
- New Mdw
- Norman 's Nest
- North Mdw
- Old Cl
- Old Ridges Mdw
- Paddock Cl
- Parson 's Cl
- Payne 's Cl
- Plough Mdw
- North Ploughed Mdw
- Pugh 's Fd
- Pump Fd
- Raikes Baulk
- Back of Railway
- Road Cl
- Round Hill
- Bottom Rowell South Rowell Cl South Rowell Mdw
- Saunt Cl
- Sheep Dip Mdw
- Sheep Pen Fd
- Silver Hill
- Harold Smith 's Fd
- South Mdw
- Station Fd
- Thistly Fd
- Three Corner Fd
- Middle Tom 's Cl Tom 's Close Mdw
- Tower Fd
- Wheat Cl
- Wright 's Cl
- Ashbys Hedge Furlong
- Betwixt the Town ( e ) s
- Blackpitt
- the Bowlinge lease
- Brackleys
- Long Breach
- Broad Holme
- Bullocks Pen Furlong
- Camsil ( l )
- Church Hadland Furlong
- Cole Acres
- Curst Roods
- Damfurlonge
- Dunwellefurlong
- Neather Farr Doles
- Flagdadmore
- The Footes
- The Goore
- Gostill feild
- Nether Greene
- Greens Hedge Furlong
- The Ham ( m ) e
- Hasty way
- Haverborowe waye
- Heiford way
- High hedge Furlong
- ( the ) High Meadow
- Neather Hill Furlong
- the Homestead
- the Homestall
- Hopping Way
- Horsepoole
- Horswell '
- Hundhill
- Iliff hedge furlong
- Kylne close
- Langdale
- Laughton way ( e )
- Lodge close
- Long Leys
- Longlubenhamhull '
- the meadow
- Mill Furlong
- New Farm
- Notebamhull
- Osterdame
- Ouertwel
- Pearetree Bridge
- Hiderpeislond
- the Pittes
- Prestmedwe
- Pylland
- Ranglands
- Sandyhoke
- St Leighs
- Schortesmere
- the Sheire brooke
- Stanley way
- Neather Stonidale
- Stonymedow
- Sturgis Close
- Tassel Sick
- Tauftes
- Thedyngesthorp
- Thorny Pytt
- Upper Twills
- Neather Twintill
- Twodales
- Tythemedow
- Water Furrows
- Whaybrooke
- Neather Whitlands
- Whittley Furlong
- Whytestone
- Widdows Hedge
- Wolfawell