Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Eistop, Istop 1086 DB

• Stobis 1264 YI

• Stubbis, Stubbys 1175–83 YCh c.1240 Pont 1276 RH

• Stubbyswaldyng 1452 YDi 1501 Ipm

• Stubbes c.1210 Pont 1240–8 YChviii 1244 YI 1251 Ass 1504 FF

• Stubbes Walding, Stubbes Waldyng 1280 Ass 1327 FF 1413 YI 1418 YDvi 1605 FF

• Stubbeswoldyng 1429 YDvi

• Stubbes Walden 1572 YDxiii,68

• Waldinge Stubbes 1607 FF

• Stubbs 1281 DodsN

• Stubbs Walden 1822 Langd

• Walden Stubes 1587 WillY

Etymology

'The tree-stumps', v. stubb . On the DB spellings with initial AN  (e )is - for s -, cf. IPN 103. Cf. Hamphall Stubbs 43supra , Cridling Stubbs 62infra , from which it is distinguished by the name of a twelfth century local man Walding (OG  Waldin , cf. Feilitzen 408, or an OE  Walding , a patronymic formed from OE  Walda ); Willelmus filius Walding was witness to the charter 1175–83 YCh 1555.