Syntley Fm
Early-attested site in the Parish of Astley
Historical Forms
- Synteleye 1255 Ass 1302 Ipm
- Cynteley, Cyntelegh 1322 Pat 1346 FA 1349 Pat 1438 IpmR
- Syntley 1637 VCHiv.231n.5
Etymology
This name presents difficulties. Heming (246) gives the bounds of Pensax. These bounds include a sintlæges hyll . The bounds are difficult to follow, as they certainly include a larger area than the present parish of Pensax, but sintlæges hyll may, with a good deal of probability, be identified with a ridge some 2 miles long, lying above the 500 ft. contour-line, which runs north-north-west from Abberley Park. Just by is St Clairs Barn and the first part of this name may be a corruption of sintlæge , closely similar to that of the curious St Chloe (Gl), identified by Mr Baddeley (PN Gl 136) with the Sengedleag , Sengetlege of BCS 164, 574. This name appears later as Seintley , Sencle , Senckley .
The existence of a sintlæge so near Syntley and yet not identical with it is curious, but seems certain. As to the etymology of it the only suggestion that can be made is that, as with a good many other names in the same bounds, Heming has here given us a post-Conquest form for an earlier sengetlæge .With reference to that name we may note that Middendorff (Flurnamenbuch 115) assumes that the first element here and in sænget hryg (BCS 506) and sænget þorn (BCS 629) is the past part. of OE sengean , 'burn,' or 'singe ,' but the persistent t in these names and in senet hricg (BCS 1282), sænget hyrst (BCS 1198) and sænget den (BCS 396) suggests that the first element is really a noun sænget denoting the action of burning, an exact parallel to OE bærnet, which gives us The Barnets infra 83.