Great Ervilles Farm

Great Ervilles Farm, Denmead
farm
parish:
county:
coords:
Denmead
Hampshire
SU6312
refce: HANTSLOC.t

old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants LXVII.11

Great Ervills
Ervills, Great
otherwise: Ereuelles, 1380; Ervelles, 1397; Arvilles, 1557; Erfildes, 1586

refce: Coates 1989
ERVILLS (GREAT), farm in Hambledon
Obscure. Appears to be a surname of French origin. The manor is sometimes called 'Ervelles Exton' (eg 1418), but no connection with EXTON, 5 miles NW, is known, and the relation between the two parts of this name is unknown. We might hazard that the name is really hypothetical Old English 'Eorthhyllas'='earth hills', from the two barrows adjacent to the farm. But no exact parallel for such an early and permanent change of [th] ==> [v] is known in Ha.

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001