Toddington
Major Settlement in the Parish of Toddington
Historical Forms
- Dodintone 1086 DB
- Totingedone 1086 DB
- Tudingedon 1166,1182 P 1220 LS 1232 FF 1243 Cl
- Tudingeden 1180 P
- Tudingeton 1186,1193 P 1198 Abbr 1229 Cl
- Todingedon 1187 P 1250 Ch 1276 RH
- Tudinton 1194 P 1244 Cl
- Tuddingeton 1198 Abbr 1227 Ass
- Tudingetun 1198 FF
- Tundingedun (sic) c.1200 Dunst 13th
- Totingedun c.1200 Dunst 13th
- Tudington, Tudyngton 1219 FF 1227 Ass 1229 Ch 1231 Bract 1240 Ass 1244 Cl 1287 Ass 1315,1392 Ch
- Tudingdon, Tudyngdon 1227 Ass 1231,1238 Cl 1240 Ass 1247,1276 Ass 1286 Dunst 1287 Ass
- Todingdon, Todyngdon 1227,1240 Ass 1276 Ass 1291 NI 1316 1333 Ipm 1390–2 CS
- Todington, Todyngton 1227,1240 Ass 1276 Ass 1316 Cl 1489 Ipm 1526 LS
- Tuddingetun 1232 Cl
- Tudendon 1232 Cl
- Tudingesdon 1239 FF
- Tutdingedon 1242 Fees868
- Tuddingdon 1244 Cl
- Totingdon 1276 Ass
- Totingedon 1276 RH
- Totynton 1342 Ipm
- Totyngdon 1382 Cl 1439 IpmR
- Tudyngdown 1388 Cl
- Tuddington 1576 Saxton 1766 J 1780 Jury
- Taddington 1662 Fuller
Etymology
'Hill of Tuda's people' v. inga , dun . The forms with o were at first purely spelling variants but ultimately tended to affect the pronunciation except locally. Skeat is inclined to identify this with the place called Tudincgatun (Thorpe 527), but it is very improbable that that is in Beds and we should certainly expect -dun rather than -tun as the termination. Of considerable interest is the occurrence of the field-name Tuddeworth in this parish, in the Dunstable Cartulary. It is clearly named after the same man.