Bocking
Major Settlement in the Parish of Bocking
Historical Forms
- (on) Boccinge, (æt) Boccinge c.995 ASWills c.997 ib
- Boccing c.1050 KCD896 c.1200
- Bochinges 1086 DB 1155–8 Delisle
- Bockynges 1233 Cl 1275 RH
- Bocking 1255 Ass 1457 Inqaqd
- Bok(k)ing(g) 1258 FF 1271 Pat
- Bakkyng 1272 Ass 1538 HMCx
- Bochin 1710 ERxxvii
Etymology
There can be little doubt that Ekwall (PN in -ing 9) is right in taking this name to be a singular in ing rather than a plural in ingas . Two of the AS forms are from 10th-century documents and the third is from a cartulary which preserves Old English forms. The persistent cc makes it very difficult to derive the name from OE bōc , 'beech,' for if we have an ing - name there is no reason why trisyllabic shortening should have taken place and it is very doubtful, even if such shortening were possible, if it would find record in 11th-century spellings.See Addenda supra lxi.