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Teynham ( ) is a large village and civil parish in Kent, England, in the district of Swale. The parish lies immediately north of the A2 between Faversham and Sittingbourne, away and includes the hamlet of Conyer on an inlet of the Swale, a channel that separates mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey. Barrow Green is also part of the village as are the areas (hamlets) of Deerton Street, Green Street, Frognal, New Gardens, Sandown and Teynham Street. The village is served by Teynham railway station, 1hr 9mins to London Victoria. ==Origin of name== Charters of 798 to 801 and ''Domesday Monachorum'' — a series of Domesday-related texts kept at Canterbury Cathedral — mention it as Teneham, Taenham, Tenaham and Tenham. In Domesday Book the name occurs as “Therham” (probably a clerical error). The historian JK Wallenberg (in 1931) suggests an Anglo-Saxon root, tynan, to enclose, followed by the Anglo-Saxon word “Hamm", a land drained by dykes. Another historian, Eilert Ekwall (in 1936), suggests an early owner named Teona, whose name is found in Teonanhyll in Berkshire. In 1590, William Lambarde wrote his book ''Perambulation of Kent'', in which Tenham is called the towne of ten houses. He also notes that in 1533, 105 acres of good ground in 'Brennet' (a former name of Tenham, were divided in ten parcels of land to grow fruit for King Henry. J Harris, in his ''History of Kent'' (1719) calls it the “place of ten houses” (hams) but there must have been hundreds of places with 10 houses in Anglo-Saxon times. It is also possibly "homestead of a man called Tena" or "homestead near the stream called Tene". Several other etymologies have been suggested. The "y" in "Teynham" was apparently added by the Roper family, who have been Barons of Teynham from 1616. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Teynham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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