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.

Teigh

Major Settlement in the Parish of Teigh

Historical Forms

  • Tie 1086 DB
  • Ti 1202 Ass
  • Ty e13 WoCart 1449 Val 1254 Deed 1295 WoCart 1303 AD 1449 CoPleas 1349 1513
  • Ty Foluile 1449 WoCart
  • Tye 1282 OSut c1291 Tax 1449 WoCart
  • Thy 1201 Ass 1263 Pat 1327 SR 1341 NI
  • Tygh(e) 1434 Pat 1436 Fine 1538 Finch 1539 Recov 1610 Speed
  • Tygh(e) Folvyle 1468 Cl
  • Teigh(e) 1605 Recov 1629 LML
  • Burstall' medewe l13 (1449) WoCart

Etymology

'The small enclosure', v. tēag . The manor belonged to the fee of de Folville in the fifteenth century (cf. Ashby Folville Lei). The early field-name Burstall ' medewe l13 (1449) WoCart is recorded for the parish, from burh-stall 'the site of a fortification', cf. Burghsyk ' in neighbouring Barrow f.ns. (b). The 'enclosure' may have once related to this lost fortified site.