In the light of current knowledge of the meaning of OE feld and its use in place-names, consideration is given to the origin and meaning of the regional name Feldon. The article concludes that the available evidence suggests that Feldon, a name associated from the sixteenth century with that part of Warwickshire south of the river Avon but also found in south-west Leicestershire, is more likely to have been derived from a ME adjective than from the dative plural of feld. A suggested link between Feldon and the OE fildena, fildene or feldene, which is found as a qualifier in names of roads, springs and fords in some OE charters and later medieval documents, is also re-examined. These names were found not only in Warwickshire but also in some other counties, where there was no known district-name resembling Feldon. Two different theories about the derivation and meaning of this qualifier are reconsidered and an alternative is presented which overcomes the objections to each of them. Grammatical and topographical evidence is used to support the proposal that OE fildena, fildene or feldene originated as a compound of feld and OE denu.