Edingthorpe
Major Settlement in the Parish of Edingthorpe
Historical Forms
- Ædidestorp 1177 P
- Edith(e)thorp' 1234,c.1300 Bromh 1323 Ipm
- Edittorp 1250 Ass
- Edithorp(e) c.1250 Holme 1261 FF 1286 Ass 1316 FA 1325,1429 Pat 1330 SR 1429 Past
- Edythorp(e) 1250 Ass 1287–8 NoLeet 1325,1388 FF 1352,1360 Pat 1425 Past 1535 VE
- Edinestorp 1198 Fees
- Edinesthorp 1242 Pat 1286 Ass 1320 Inq
- Edynesthorp 1253to1347 FF 1306 Orig 1327 Banco c.1450 NfA
- Edinestorp 1254–75 Val
- Edynestorpe 1269 Ass
- Edienestorpe 1286 ib
- Edenesthorp 1286 1304 Bromh
- Edgmestorp 1291 Tax
- Edyenesthorp 1306 Bromh 1306 Pat 1334,1335 FF
- Edeynsthorpe 1321 InqAqd
- Ednesthorp 1325 FF
- Edenthorp 1787 Marshall
- Aidihestorp 1250 Ass
- Edistorp 1250 ib
- Ediesthorp 1317 Banco 1319 FF
- Edyesthorp(e) 1319 Pat 1348 Ipm
- Eidesthorp 1347 Cromer
- Esthorp 1347 Fine
- Edinetorp(e) 1227 Bract 14 Bromh
- Edynethorp 1257 Ass 1324 Pat
- Edinethorp 1307 Banco 1308 NfA
- Edenthorp(e) 1318 Inqaqd
- Edyngthorp(e) 1419,1422 FF 1518 AD 1530 BM 1535 VE 1548 Pat
- Edingthorpe 1610 Speed
- Edgiua Swanneshals qui dedit Thurgertone 1186–1210 Holme 33
Etymology
The modern form of this name is comparatively late. The oldest spellings show that it is a compound of the OE woman's name Ēadgȳð (ME Edged , Edied , Ediet , etc., v. Feilitzen 231 f.) and þorp (cf. DEPN s.n.). Edinetorp may have originated in a scribal error for Ediuetorp (cf. PN Wo 92, PN Brk 303). ME Ediue is a reflex of OE Ēadgifu (v. Feilitzen 229 ff.), but there is evidence that Ēadgifu and Ēadgȳð were occasionally confused, for instance already in DB (v. Feilitzen 231).
Schram (1926: 204) thinks that the reference may be to Edgiua Swanneshals , who is mentioned as Edeua faira in DB in Blakenham Sf (DB II 285a). She was a benefactress of the Abbey of St Benet of Holme (Edgiua Swanneshals qui dedit Thurgertone 1186–1210 Holme 33). Thurgarton in N. Erpingham Hundred is not very far from Edingthorpe. Seltén (II 67) identifies this lady with the Edith Swanneshals who was the mistress of King Harold II (d. 1066).