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Survey of English Place-Names

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Gloryhill (Fm)

Early-attested site in the Parish of Wooburn

Historical Forms

  • Gloria 1255 FF
  • Glone (sic) 1325 Cl
  • Glorie 1329,1340 Pat 1344,1364 Cl
  • Glove (sic) 1335 Cl
  • Glorie 1342 Pat
  • Glory 1490 Ipm

Etymology

Professor Weekley suggests that this is the simplex of the French diminutive gloriette , common in French dialect, including Normandy, in the sense,f a summer-house, 'a little banqueting house in a garden' (Cotgrave), apparently so called from its ornamental character. The dimin. is used also in English of a decorated chamber in a castle. One must take Glorie then as some term of praise describing the appearance or situation of the manor-house. In the Dictionnaire Topographique we have La Gloire (Marne and L'Aube).

Places in the same Parish