English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Golden Gate

Other OS name in the Parish of Sturminster Newton

Historical Forms

  • bi targildenedich m14 Glast

Etymology

( lost , about ST 768156 ) , 1811 OS ; somewhere near , and therefore probably to be associated with bi targildenedich m14Glast in the bounds of Sturminster N . , from gylden ' splendid ' or ' gold-coloured ' and dīc ' ditch ' , tar - perhaps representing OE  pǣre .