Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Totinge 675 BCS 13th BCS697 933 13th

• Totinges t.EdConf KCD846 13th DB 1086 Crispin 1100–16 Ass 1225 FF 1247

• Totingas 1070–85 Crispin

• Tatinges (sic) 1215 ClR

• Suttotinges 1225 Ass

• Thotinges 1229 Cl

• Tottingas 1067 BM

• Totting' 1246 Seldii 1285 Ch

• Toting(e) 1225 Ass 1228 Cl 1242 Fees

• Toting(e) de Bek 1255 Ass

• Toting(e) le Bek 1263 Ass

• Toting(e) Beck 1316 FA

• Totingbek 1333 FF

• Totinge beacke 1595 SrWills

• Toting' Grauel' 1255 Ass

• Thoting Gravenel 1272 Ass

• Toting Gravenee 1313 Ipm

• Totingraveney 1316 FA

• Totyngge Gravene 1341 Ipm

• Totyngravenelle 1418 Cl

• Tooting Graveling 1486–93 ECPiii

• Tutyn 1542 LP

• Towting-beck, Towting-graveney 1675 Ogilby

• Tutin 1685 ParishAccts

Etymology

'The people of Tota ,' v. Ekwall, PN in -ing 54. It has been suggested that Totingas should be interpreted as 'people of the look-out place' (StudNP v, 18). It should be noted, however, that there is no hill in Tooting which would make a good lookout place, and that while ME  tote , in the compound tote-hyll is well evidenced, the existence of an OE  tot is much more doubtful.

From DB onwards there were two manors of Tooting, Upper Tooting or Tooting Bec, which was held in 1086 by the abbey of St Mary of Bech (Bec-Hellouin in Normandy) and Lower or South Tooting, later Tooting Graveney, which was held by Richard de Gravenel in 1215 (ClR), whose family must have come from Graveney (K). A Richard of Gravenell witnessed the grant of Balham to the abbey of Bec c. 1190 (Dugd vi, 1086).