Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Waltham 1086 DB c.1115 LS Hy2 Gilb 1409 P 1177,1178,1188 1190,1191 1192,1193,1194,1195 ChancR 1196 P 1197 1201 HarlCh 1202 P 1202 P 1207 Cur 1214 Pat 1217 ChancR 1230 Ch 1231 Cl 1231,1232,1235,1237 Fees 1238–41,1242–43 ValNor 1254 FF 1258 RH 1275,1276 HarlCh 1284 Misc 1290 Pat 1290 Tax 1291 AD 1297 Cl 1303 Ipm 1311

• Waltham juxta Barnolbi, Waltham juxta Grimesby 1308 Inqaqd

• Waltham juxta Grymesby 1309 Orig 1436 IBL

• Waltham “near” Grymesby 1308 Pat

• Waltham “by” Grymesby 1367 Cl 1437 Pap

• Waltham “by” Grymmesby 1497 Cl

• Waltham iuxta Scarthou 1328 FF

• Waltham “by” Scarthou, Waltham in Lyndesheymerssh 1400 Pat

• Waltham in Lyndesey 1409,1416 ib

• Walthame 1219 Welles 1454 Cl

• Walteham 1275 RH

• Wautham(') 1230 P 1234 FF 1249,1252 Cl

Etymology

'The wold estate', v. wald , hām . All the known examples of Waltham have been studied by Rhona Huggins, “The Significances of the Place-Name Wealdhām”, Medieval Archaeology , xix 1975, who has convincingly argued that they comprise a coherent group of names and, further, that they were used in an early period of the settlement of the districts in which they occur for royal administrative centres in forest areas. It may, of course, be pure coincidence, but the name of Jordan le Forester is recorded in Waltham in 1323 Pat. It is referred to as near Barnoldby le Beck, Great Grimsby and Scartho.