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Survey of English Place-Names

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Gold Court

Other OS name in the Parish of Wareham Lady St Mary & St Martin

Historical Forms

  • Tenement called Gould Court 1545 DCMDeed 1774 Hutch1
  • Gould Court c.1753 DROMap

Etymology

( lost ) , Tenement called Gould Court 1545DCMDeed , 1774 Hutch1,Gould Court c. 1753 DROMap , v. court ; the first el . is probably a surname , cf. terr ' ad caput pontis de Froma in parte occidentali ubi Osmundus aurifaber mansit , Edwardo Golde de Warham demes '…inter ecclesiam Sancte Trinitatiset ripam que vocatur Wroune ,Rob ' Gold de Warham p1483Sheen , cf. South Bridge infra , HolyTrinity Church supra , R . Frome in RNs. infra ; in Hutch 1 1 21 it is described as follows : ' On the South side of the key was a large old house … called Gold - Court . It seems to have been the habitation of a family of note who owned it . One Robert Golde of Wareham frequently occurs , t. E . III in old deeds . But tradition says it had its name from gold , etc . being coined here , when the mint existed . ' For the Anglo - Saxon mint at Wareham , v. ASCoins 145 .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement