Tyringham (/ˈtiːrɪŋəm/) is a village in the unitary authority area of the

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, England. It is located about a mile and a half north of

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. The village name is an

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word, and means 'Tir's home'. In the

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of 1086 the village was recorded as ''Telingham''. There is a theory that the name Tyringham refers to a settlement of Thuringii Germans coming with the Anglo-Saxons in the Dark Ages.

Civil parish

Historically, the parish of "Tyringham with Filgrave" (or "Tyringham cum Filgrave") was first created in 1639 by the union of two parishes. The modern

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

is Tyringham and Filgrave, consisting of these two villages and their surrounding area. At the 2001 census, the population of the parish was 190.http://www.mkweb.co.uk/statistics/documents/Population%5FBulletin%5F2005%2D6%2Epdf page 22 Historically, Tyringham on its own once contained only two houses, but was a village in its own right because it had an ecclesiastic parish.

Civil parish

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