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Survey of English Place-Names

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Sulgrave

Major Settlement in the Parish of Sulgrave

Historical Forms

  • Sulgrave 1086 DB 1306 Ipm
  • Solegrave 12th Survey 1294 Ipm
  • Solegreue t.Hy3 BM
  • Solegrafe
  • Sollegrave 1285 ADi
  • Sulegrave c.1150 Harl 1209–18 WellsR 1329 Ch
  • Sullegrave 1329 Ch
  • Culegrave 1205 Cur
  • Solgrave 1300 ADvi 1301,1304 Cl
  • Sowgrave al. Souldgrave 1556 Recov
  • Sowegrave 1563 FF
  • Sowgrave t.Jas1 ECP
  • Sulgrave al. Sowlgrave al. Souldgrave 1631 FF

Etymology

Sulgrave lies on a low spur in a broad deep-cut valley. One must take it that the first element is OE  sulh , denoting a channel or passage of some kind, as noted in Souldrop (PN BedsHu 43), and discussed by Stevenson in Crawford Charters 47. We seem to have a compound of the same elements in sulig graf (BCS 1108). See further BT Supplt s. v. sulh . The second element is perhaps græf , 'pit, trench,' rather than graf , 'grove.'

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name