Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• on miclanfelda 963 RegAlbi,56d 13

• Miclafeld c.1030 YCh7

• Mikelfeld(a) 1160–75 YCh1777–8 e.13 RegAlbii,42 1205–10 Pont c.1216 RegAlbiii,50 1267,1281,1300 Ebor 1404 Pat

• Mikelfeld(a) in Elmet 1363 FF

• Mikelfeud(e) 1246 Ass9 1285 KI

• Mykelfeld 1272 Abbr 1342 Ass6d 1379 PT

• Michelfeld c.1214,c.1237 Pont

• Muclefeud p.1290 YDi

• Mickilfelde 1287 YI

• Mikkelfeld 1428 FA

• Micklefeild 1636 WillY

• Mekilfeld(e), Mekelfeld(e) 1497 Testiv 1552 WillY

Etymology

'The great stretch of open country', v. micel , feld . On Mucle - cf. Phonol. § 33; -feud is an AN spelling. For the affix Elmet v. 1supra .