|
Upper Froyle
Upper Froyle, Froyle |
|
settlement
|
parish:
county:
coords:
|
Froyle
Hampshire
SU7542
|
refce: |
HANTSLOC.t
|
|
old map: |
25inch County Series map -- Hants XXVII.16 |
|
|
Upper Froyle
Froyle, Upper
otherwise: Froli, 1086; Froila, 1167; Froyle, 1236;
Frohill', 1199
|
refce: |
Coates 1989
FROYLE (UPPER and LOWER)
A difficult name. Ekwall and Gover both toy with the idea that it is Old
English 'hill of (the god) 'Freo/Frig'' which (a) is highly speculative; (b)
does not account for the universal 'o'; (c) does not really account for the
morphology of the name - one might expect some 12th century forms with three
syllables; and (d) does not respect the fact that Upper Froyle is at the tip of
a rather insignificant ridge, and closer to the river Wey than to the more
significant ridge to the north of it. Only a small group of forms like that of
1199 suggest 'hill'. Better perhaps an unrecorded ancestor of Middle English
'frow'='swift' and Old English wiell(e) 'spring, stream'. The name would refer
to the Wey, as there is no side stream here. There is plenty of support from
other Germanic languages for an hypothetical Old English 'fraw-'.
There is still the question of 'Frobury' farm in Kingsclere, however (1184
'Frolebiri' 1236 'Froillebyr'' 1541 'Frowbery' 1586 'Frolberry'). Ekwall
considers this place name to contain that of Froyle (or one identical to it) as
its first element. But 'Froyle' shows lots of evidence for a medial '-i-' whilst
in 'Frobury' only the form from 1236 has an '-i-'. The two are probably
therefore unrelated. They are not really near each other (Froyle SU755429,
Frobury SU512595). 'Frobury' may contain hypothetical 'Fr(e)olla' a short form
of the name 'Freothulaf' (Frithulaf).
|
|
old map
|
Froyle
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, town - Alton Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
|
refce: |
Harrison 1788
|
|
(HAR1SU74.jpg)
|
|
old map
|
Froyle
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Alton Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
|
refce: |
Morden 1695
|
|
(MRD2SU74.jpg)
|
|
old map
|
Fraile Church
Shown on an old map by Ogilby 1675
- church - Hampshire
|
refce: |
Ogilby 1675 (pl.51)
|
|
(OG51SU74.jpg)
|
|
old map
|
Froyle
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Alton Hundred - Hantshire
|
refce: |
Speed 1611
|
|
(SPD1SU74.jpg)
|
|
old map
|
Froyle
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Alton Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
|
refce: |
Norden 1607
|
|
(NRD1SU74.jpg)
|
|
old map
|
Froyle
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
|
refce: |
Saxton 1575
|
|
(SAX1SU74.jpg)
|
|
domesday
|
Froli
Listed in Domesday Book
- Neteham Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
|
refce: |
Moody 1862 (Domesday)
|