Tinkfield Fm
Early-attested site in the Parish of Etchilhampton
Historical Forms
- Fing Field Barn 1773 Devizes
- Tinkfield c.1840 TA
Etymology
Tinkfield Fm (6″) is Fing Field Barn 1773Devizes , Tinkfield c. 1840TA . This lies just west of Etchilhampton Hill, the meeting-place for the Hundred of Cannings (cf. supra 249).This suggests that the first element is the Old English þing , 'assembly,' used elsewhere in hundred and other names; cf. Tingrith Hundred (PN BedsHu 134) and Fingest (PN Bk 176) where we have the same confusion of initial th and f and Anglo-Norman t . Cf. also perhaps Tinghale (PN Sx 92).