English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Thurkildes

Field in the Parish of Cawston

Historical Forms

  • Thurkildes 1453 Ct

Etymology

Thurkildes 1453 Ct Schram(ON  Þorketill, ODan  Thurkil,OSw  Thorkil, v. Insley 414 ff., a pers.n. well evidenced both in East and West Scand;cf. Will. Thurkeld 1443)