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Dringhouses

Major Settlement in the Parish of Acomb

Historical Forms

  • Drengeshireses (sic) 1109–40 YChvi
  • Drengehuses 13 YDx
  • apud domos Dreng Steph Pat 1464
  • Drenghus(es) 1205 OblR 1259 Ch
  • Drengus 1234 FF
  • Drengus houses 1379 PT
  • Dringhus(es) 1276 RH 1302 Ebor
  • Dringhous, Drynghous, Drynghouse(s) c.1295 Ext 1312 MinAcct 1316 Vill 1330 Ch 1557 Surv
  • Drynghowses 1614 FF
  • Dringgenhus 1285 KI
  • Drynhouse 1493 YDxii,245

Etymology

'House(s) of the drengs', v. drengr , hūs . A dreng was 'a man holding land by a particular kind of free tenure'. There was also an ON  pers.n. Drengr in use in the Danelaw (NP 31). Cf. also Dringthorpe 226supra and Dringfield infra .