Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Sidingal(e) 1086 DB

• Sieclinghale 12 YDiv

• Sicclinhala c.1150 Crawf

• Sicolinghal' 1154–74 YChx

• Siclinghale, Syclinghale, Siklinghale 13 1240 Percy 1246 FF 1276 RH 1357,1364 FF

• Siklinghall(e) 1285 KI 1311 NCyWills 1501 Ipm

• Sicklinghall 1584 WillY

• Sikelingehal(l) 1220 Cur 1220,1222 FF 1246 Ass15d

• Siclingehal 1221 Cur

• Sikelinghall, Sykelinghall 1222 Percy 1279–81 QW 1303 KF 1569 FF

• Sikelinghal(e) 1252 Ch 1316 Pat 1318 YDvi

• Sikkelinghale 13 YDix

• Secclinghale 13 Percy

• Seklinghall(e) 1507 Testiv 1541 MinAcct

• Seklinghawll 1541 YDvi

• Sicknihale 1242 YDiv

• Skyelinghale 1243 Fees

• Sigglinghall, Sygglinghall, Sygglynghall 1316 Vill 1415 YI

• Sygglynghale 1379 PT

• Syglyngall 1413 YI

Etymology

This is a difficult name and on purely formal grounds it could represent an OE  Sīclinga -halh 'nook of land of the stream-dwellers' (v. sīcel ) or an OE  Sic (c )eling (a )-halh 'the nook of land of Sicela or Sicela's folk' as Ekwall suggests; the OE  pers.n. Sicela is nowhere else recorded, but it is a possible formation from the OE  Sica which is postulated from Sicanburh (BCS 1023) or an OE  Sicca corresponding to OSax , OFris  Sicco ; v. -ing 4 , -ingas , halh . The halh would be the wide depression falling from the village to Toad Hole Beck.