Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Roddan beorg 716–43 BCS164 11th

• Roddanbeorg 896 BCS574 c.1560

• Redeberg' 1199 FF

• Redebergh 1221 Ass

• Rodeb'ge, Rodeberg(e), Rodebergh 1207 Abbr 1221 Ass c.1250 Berk 1262 Misc 1313 Pat 1407 FF

• Rodeburwe 13 HMCv,336

• Rodebure 1220–30 Berk

• Rodeber(e)w(e) 1220–43 1291 Tax Ric2 Rent

• Rodeboeruwe 1292 BM

• Radeberwe 1287 Ass

• Radburgh als. Redbarwe 1420 Pat

• Radburgh 1542 LP

• Radborowe 1559 FF

• Rodbergh(e) 1294 Cl 1306 Ass 1414 Pat

• Rodberwe 1368 FF

• Rodberugh 1400 Ipm

• Rodburgh 1417 Pat 1476 et freq

• Rodborough(e) 1569 Comm

• Rodborowgh 1570 GlR

• Rodborowe 1581 FF

• Rudeburgh 1456 MinAcct

• Roddeburgh 1492 FF

Etymology

The OE form shows that this name, as Ekwall has suggested, may be from an unrecorded OE  rodde (gen.sg. roddan ) corresponding to Norw  rodda 'an upright pole', or from an OE  pers.n. Rodda (derived from OE  rodd 'rod, stick'); v. beorg 'hill', here denoting Rodborough Hill.