Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• the manor house 1711 Nevile

Etymology

, 1649, 1801, 1815, 1830CCLeases , the manor house 1711Nevile . In the text of 1815CCLeases , Sheriff 's Tooth is said to be a common name for Manor House , though this sense is not recorded in dictionaries . Cf. terr ' in Glentham vocat le Sheffiffs Tooth 1666DCAcct , Sheriff 's Tooth 1815CCLeases . This is ME  shirreve (s ) toth glossed in MED as ' a customary rent ' and in NED as ' an annual impost … levied by the sheriff on each bovate of land within his county ' . Professor Sir John Smith , however , points out that this was ' a rent paid by certain tenants who held by the tenure of providing entertainment for the sheriff when sitting in his county court ' .