List of places in the Godalming hundred explained

Places in the ancient Godalming hundred of Surrey (with their probable meanings) include:

• Alfold ("old enclosure")
• Amberley (Imberlēah meaning "riverside clearing")
• Artington (from heorotingdon meaning "hill of the people of the sacred hart"^[1]
• Bagmoor (possibly from the personal name Bacca + Moor, or perhaps meaning "badger's moor")
• Binscombe (from possible Brythonic personal name Buden + Combe, meaning "Buden's Valley")
• Brook (Brōc meaning "fast flowing stream" in Old English; cognate with Dutch broek, German bruch)
• Busbridge (Bus + bridge, perhaps referring to the old bridge over the lake)
• Catteshall (Gattes Hill meaning "gate or route to hill")
• Chiddingfold (Chadingesfold meaning "enclosure of the people of the hollow")
• Chinthurst (Chint + hurst, the second word means "wooded hill")
• Compton (Probably a corruption of comb + tun meaning "valley estate")
• Cosford (probably from "Cusa's Ford" but possibly from Welsh cors meaning bog, fen; hence "bog by the ford")
• Culmer (Col mere meaning "cool or deep lake")
• Cut Mill ("mill in the valley")
• Dunsfold ("hilltop enclosure")
• Eashing ("people of Essa")
• Elstead (Ellested meaning "Place where the Elder trees grow")
• Emley or Bowlhead Green (Eme lēah meaning "Ema's Clearing")
• Enton (unknown, derived from En + tun, possibly "estate end")
• Farncombe (Fernecome meaning "marshy valley")
• Feathercombe (possibly meaning "wooded valley")
• Frillinghurst ("the wooded hill of the people of the forest edge")
• Godalming (Godhelm Ingas meaning "the people of Godhelm")
• Grafham (Grafhæm meaning "farm by the grove")
• Hambledon (Hameledūn probably meaning "flat-topped hill")
• Hankley (Hank + lēah, meaning either "Hank's clearing" or possibly "dry clearing")
• Hascombe (Hægtessecombe, meaning "valley of the witch")
• Hurling (Hurlingas, meaning "Hurl's people"
• Hurtmore (heorotmera, the second part means "hart (deer) lake")
• Hurthill ("deer hill")
• Hydestyle (unknown)
• Hydon ("high hill")
• Lascombe (the second part means "valley")
• Littleton ("small estate")
• Losley (Loselēah, the second part means "clearing")
  • Loxhill Lydling ("little people")
• Milford ("the ford by the mill")
• Mousehill, Surrey (possibly literal, probably Middle English)
• Munstead (possibly "Mun's place")
• Northbourne ("north stream")
• Nurscombe (Notescombe meaning "Note's valley"
• Ockford (Hocford, "ford of the River Ock")
• Ockley (Occalēah, "Occa's clearing")
• Peper Harrow (Pīpereheōrge, "heathen temple of the Pipers")
• Polsted (the second part means "place")
• Prior's Field ("pasture of the Prior"
• Puttenham (originally Reddesolhæm, the second part means "farm", the first part may be a given name.)
• Rodborough, see also Rodborough School (unknown, but the second part refers to a burh which is a "fortified camp")
• Rodsall (derived from the same name as Puttanham, above, Reddesolhæm)
• Sandhills (possibly literal, probably Middle English)
• Shackleford (Sakelesford, possibly derived from scacol meaning "tongue of land crossing")
• Shackstead (Scuccastead, "evil spirit place")
• Tadmoor (unknown, but some high ground)
• Tilford "fertile river crossing"
• Tiltham "fertile farm"
• Thursley (Þunreslēah, "sacred clearing of Thunor"
• Thorncombe Street "wild valley"
• Truxford (unknown but a river crossing)
• Tuesley (Tīweslēah, "sacred clearing of Tyr"
• Unsted (see Munstead)
• Winkford (unknown but a river crossing, perhaps with a given name)
• Winkworth (the first part means "corner" or "nook", the second part means a "walled enclosure")
• Witley (Witlēah, "white clearing" perhaps due to Silver Birch trees)
• Wormley (Wormlēah, "clearing of snakes", perhaps due to many adders in the vicinity)
• Yagden Hill (unknown, but the second part "den" is derived from dun meaning "hill")

• Mills, Anthony David, A Dictionary of British Place-Names (2003), Oxford University Press

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Notes and References

1. Web site: St. Catherines Hill . 2012-05-30 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110223211857/http://www.knightstemplarquest.com/St._Catherines_Hill.html . 2011-02-23 .