Telscombe
Major Settlement in the Parish of Telscombe
Historical Forms
- Titelescumb 966 BCS1191 c.1400 Lewes159
- Tittelescumbe 1248 Ass
- Tytelescumbe 1268 SRS4
- Titelescombe 1340 NI 1377 IpmR
- Titlescomb 1509 LP
- Tetelescombe 1272 RH 1340 NI 1377 Pat
- Tettelescombe 1291 Tax
- Totelescumbe t.Ed1 IpmR
- Tetlescumbe 1294 Pat
- Tetlescombe 1377 Pat
- Thekelescumbe 1307 Ass
Etymology
There is an OE pers. name Tytel or Tytla (Redin 147) which may be the first element in this name. It would explain the o and e forms, but we should have expected some u -forms in that case. The Tittandun of BCS 667 suggests that there may have been an OE pers. name Titta , perhaps a pet-form of an OE name in Tīd -, and this might have a diminutive derivative Tittel . See also Tillinghurst supra 254. That would however leave the e -forms unexplained. 'Valley of Tytel (or, less probably Tittel ),' v. cumb .
Places in the same Parish
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