Sherrard's Green
Early-attested site in the Parish of Great Malvern
Historical Forms
- Shyrrold 16th VCHiv.125
- Sherolls Green 1597 Wills
Etymology
The surname de la Schirholte is found in Baldenhale in Malvern in 1275, so that possibly there was a scir-holt or 'bright wood' from which they took their name and this wood may have left its name in the later Shyrrold . If so, the modern form is pseudo-manorial. No certainty is possible. For this name cf. Sherholt (St) of the same origin.