Teynham
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Teynham is a large village in Kent, England, in the district of Swale. It spans the A2 some 3 miles west of Faversham, and extends north to include the hamlet of Conyer, on an inlet of the Swale, a channel that separates the mainland of Kent from the Isle of Sheppey.
[edit] Origin of name
The origin of the name, Tenham, seems difficult to determine. The early charters (798 to 801) and Domesday Monachorum mention it as Teneham, Taenham, Tenaham and Tenham, and it is still pronounced ten ham with an accent on the first syllable. In Domesday Book the name occurs as “Therham” (probably a clerical error). Wallenberg suggests an Anglo-Saxon root, tynan, to enclose, followed by the Anglo-Saxon word “Hamm “, a land drained by dykes (Place Names, p. 63). Ekwall suggests an early owner named Teona, whose name is found in Teonanhyll in Berkshire (Studies on English Place Names). Harris, writing in 1719, calls it the “place of ten houses” (hams) but there must have been hundreds of places with ten houses in Anglo-Saxon times. Lastly it is also possibly 'homestead of a man called Tena or 'homestead near the stream called Tene'. Several other etymologies have been suggested but this one appears to be the most correct. The “y” in “Teynham” was apparently added by the Roper family. In any case, the name is ancient and handed down unchanged in pronunciation.
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Bapchild • Badlesmere • Bobbing • Borden • Boughton under Blean • Bredgar • Brogdale • Buckland • Chestnut Street • Conyer • Doddington • Dunkirk • Eastchurch • Eastling • Elmley • Faversham • Faversham Without • Goodnestone • Graveney • Hartlip • Harty • Hearts Delight • Hernhill • Isle of Sheppey • Iwade • Kemsley • Leaveland • Leysdown • Leysdown on Sea • Lower Halstow • Lynsted • Milstead • Milton Regis • Minster-in-Sheppey • Murston • Newington • Newnham • Norton • Oad Street • Oare • Ospringe • Queenborough • Queenborough-in-Sheppey • Rodmersham • Rushenden • Selling • Sheldwich • Sheerness • Sittingbourne • Sittingbourne and Milton • Stalisfield • Stone • Teynham • Throwley • Tonge • Tunstall • Warden |
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| The Borough of Swale List of places in Kent |
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