Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Mottersheved l12 Orm2 17th

• Mottershede 1432 Sheaf

• Mottershed 1586 Dow

• Mottershedde 1587 Cross

• Mottershead 1611 Orm2

• Mottersched 1550 Dow

• Motturshed 1482 Adl

• Mottresheued 1287 Eyre 1303 ChF

• Mottresheuyd, Mottrusheuyd 1370,1371 Eyre

• Mottrisheuyd, Mottrished 1349,1357 ib

• apud Mottram Andrewe in quodam loco vocato Mottreshede 1369 Eyre

• Moterusheved E2 Orm2 1337 ib

• Moterushede 1407,1417 ib

• Motresheved 1308 Cl

• Moutresheved 1337 Plea

• Moutreshed 1337 Orm2 17

• Mottromsheued 1349 Orm2

• Motturushede 1373 Eyre

• Muttreshedde 1513 ChEx

Etymology

'Speaker's hill', v. mōtere , cf. Mottistone Wt 164. The DEPN explanation depends upon the Moct - spelling 1287 Court 231, which seems to be an error for MS. Mott -. Cf. Mottram St Andrew supra , DEPN s.n. Mottram . This lost place gave surname to a family whose seats were Higher Ho & Lower Ho infra , v. Orm2 iii697. Halewysa de Mottromsheued , prioress of the nuns of Chester 1349 (Orm2 i347) is otherwise called de Mottersheved . The form was influenced by Mottram supra .