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.'