King's Delph
Early-attested site in the Parish of Whittlesey
Historical Forms
- (to) Cynges dælf 963 ASC c.1150
- Kyngesdelf a.1022 KCD733 1200
- (in) Kinges delfe c.1050 c.1350 ib
- Kingesdelf, Kyngesdelf c.1223 ElyCh 1390 et freq
- Kyngesdel 1477 ib
- Cnoutes delfe Kynges 1052 Rams 1334
- Kyndesdelf 1251 ElyCouch
- Kynkesdelf 1277 Ely
- Gingesdelf 1288 Misc
- Kyndelf 1349 Pat
Etymology
This is now the name of a marsh in Whittlesey, but was originally that of an artificial water-course (probably Roman) reputed to have been made by King Canute. It is now known partly as Cnut's Dyke (supra 207) and partly as Oakley Dike (supra 208). v. also King's Dike supra 208 and (ge)delf.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Bassenhally Fm, Bassenhally Field, Bassenhally Moor and Bassenhally Pits
- Beggars Bridge Fm
- Canter's Doles
- Eastrea
- Eldernell
- Feldale
- Flegcroft
- Funthams, Funtham's Dike, Funtham's Lane
- Glass Moor
- Lattersey Field, Lattersey Hill
- Lesh Fen
- The Lipneas
- Must Fm
- Northey
- North Fen
- Oldeamere
- Snoots
- Stampfen Drove
- Stonald Field
- Turningtree Bridge
- Wype Doles
Other OS name
- Angle Bridge
- Angle Corner
- Bank Fm
- Black Bush
- Blackbush Drove
- Black Dike
- Bradley Fen
- Bunting's Drove
- Burnthouse Fm
- Chapelbridge
- Church Field
- Coates
- Cold Harbour Drove
- Common Drove
- Counter Drain
- Cow Way
- Cross Drain
- Cross Drove
- Decoy Fm
- Delph Dike
- Dog in a Doublet Bridge
- Duncombe's Corner
- Earl's Lands Fm
- Field's End Bridge
- Flag Fen
- Grange Fm
- Gravel Dike
- Gull Fm
- Half Acre Drove
- Hemmerley Gravel
- Inham's End
- Kingsland
- Lake Drove
- Long Drove
- Lord's Holt
- Marriott's Drove
- Northey Fm
- Northey Gravel
- Plumtree Fm
- Pondersbridge
- Popely's Gull
- Prior's Fen
- Quaker's Drove
- Reach
- Slatebarn Drove
- Suet Hills
- Ten Acre Drove
- Town Fifty
- Turf Drove
- The Turves
- The Wash
- West Fen Drove