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 .
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Acomb Moor Ho
- Acomb Park & Acomb Wood
- Beck Bridge & Beck Field
- The Carr
- Chapel Field
- Far Field
- Gale Lane
- Great Knoll
- Hobmoor Field
- Ings Cliff Drain
- Low Field
- Ouse Acres
- Poplar Grove
- Skew Balk Lane
- Turn Mire
- West Field
- Aldersyde
- Dringfield
- Dringhouses Moor
- The Hollies
- North Field Lane
- The Roughs
- Sim Hills
- Bland Lane
- Burton Garth
- Knapton Moor
- Low Field
- Moor Ho
- North Field
- Ten Thorn Lane
- Whinny Fields