Old Hampshire Gazetteer, Shirrell Heath, Shedfield

	Shirrell Heath Shirrell Heath, Shedfield
	settlement
parish: county: coords:	Shedfield Hampshire SU5713
refce:	HANTSLOC.t

old map:	25inch County Series map -- Hants LXVII.5

	Shirrell Heath otherwise: scirhiltae, 826-12; scyrhylte, 939-12
refce:	Coates 1989 SHIRRELL HEATH in Shedfield The name is not found again till embodied in the complex form 'Sherrill heath' (1695). Old English 'bright wooded land', the second element being a derivative of Old English 'holt'='managed wood, grove'; or 'shire wood', in some uncertain sense. Cf SHERFIELD-ON-LODDON.

Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001