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Survey of English Place-Names

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Golborne David

Major Settlement in the Parish of Handley

Historical Forms

  • Goldeburne Dauid 1383 CoLegh
  • -Davy 1430 Eyre 1462 ChRR
  • -Dave 1541 Orm2

Etymology

'David's moiety of Golborne', named from David de Golberne E1StoweCh 171, Orm2 ii726, the thirteenth-century grantee of the manor.