Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Walderehelf (sic) 1190 P

• Walderchelf 1191,1193 P

• Walderself 1227 BM 1228 Hall

• Walders(c)helf(e) 1290 Ch p.1290 SheffCh 1301 Linds 1302 YDxii,301 1307 Ch 1613 Hall

• Walders(c)helf(e) byerlawe 1586 Dep

• Waldirschelf(f) 1382 Hall 1419 YDxii,114 1431 Hall

• Waldurshelf 1441 SheffMan

• Waddeshelfe 1550 FF

• Waulderseg' 1196–1201 YChviii

• Walderslow 1841 O.S.

Etymology

Waldershaigh is Waulderseg '1196–1201 YCh viii, and Walders Low, Walderslow 1841 O.S.

'Waldhere's shelving terrain, enclosure and mound', v. scelf , haga , hlāw . The pers.n. Wald (h )ere is independently recorded in Old English sources, and it occurs also in Waldringham Sf (Waldringfeld BCS 1008). The site of the tumulus is still known. DB Sceuelt ', where the king had one carucate, has been identified with Waldershelf by Skaife, Yorks DB 27, 215, and Zachrisson, PN -ing 118 note, but this cannot be reconciled with the forms or origins of the two names; there is no reason why the king should not have had this one carucate in Sheffield nor is there anything in the spelling Sceuelt ' to preclude its identity with Sheffield 204supra .