Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Bastedene 1086 DB 1177,1181 P

• Bastadene e.13th Rutland

• Bastendena 1155–8 Delisle 1322 Fine

• Bastindene 1210–12 RBE 13th

• Bastinden 1241 Ch

• Bastinden', Bastyndon' 1284 Ass

• Bastlesden' 1175 P 1242–3 Fees

• Bastelesden 1300 Pat

• Baselesdon' 1199 P

• Bastesden' 1203 P 1260–1 FF

• Basteleden' 1220 Fees

• Bastelden' 1231 Cl 1517 DInc

• Bastleden 1275–6 RH

• Bastilden' 1284 Ass

• Basteleden 1300 Pat

• Bastilden 1337 Gor 1345 Cl

• Beslesden', Bestlesden' 1224–5 Ass

• Bestlesdene 1242–3 Fees

• Bastingeden' 1241 Cl

• Bastyngden 1272 Ipm

• Bastingden' 1284 Ass

• Bastingden 1363 Pat

• Baseldene 1335—6 FA 1346

• Basilden 1535 VE

• Bassledeane 1676 ArchJ

• Bassleton 17th PubLib(Clayton)

• Bassildon 1830 OS

• Bassyngdene 1402 Fine

• Bestlesforda c. 690 (c. 1200) BCS 74, 687 (c. 1200) BCS 100

• Bæstlæsford, (æt) bestles forda c. 895 (12th) BCS 565

Etymology

This place is referred to as Bestlesforda c. 690 (c. 1200) BCS 74, 687 (c. 1200) BCS 100, Bæstlæsford , (æt ) bestles forda c. 895 (12th) BCS 565. There were evidently a ford (the vadum Bestlesford of BCS 101) and a valley (v. denu ) which were both named from the same man, whose name may have been *Bæssel , as suggested in DEPN. The substitution of -don for -den is modern.

The charters are discussed in Pt 3.