Tackley, Fackley
Early-attested site in the Parish of Foleshill
Historical Forms
- Tackele 1249 Ch
- Tackley t.Hy8 AOMB 1789 Cary c.1840 TA
- Fackeley 1356 PipewellReg 1411 Coventry
- Fackley c.1840 TA
- Thackeleye 1463 ADiii
- Thakley 1588 LRMB
Etymology
This name (in its two forms) is applied to fields in the neighbourhood of Hawkesbury, just where the Oxford and Coventry canals meet, with much marshy ground in the neighbourhood.The place is some two miles from Tackford supra and can have no direct association with it. It is an independent compound with the same first element þæc , hence 'clearing where thatching material grows.' For the interchange of t and th cf. Tackford itself, for interchange of th and f cf. Fingest (PN Bk 176) and Finedon (PN Nth 181).