English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Gogland

Early-attested site in the Parish of Cruwys Morchard

Etymology

The first element may, as suggested by Blomé (114), be the dialectal word gog , 'bog, quagmire,' the land being somewhat marshy here.Another possibility is that the name is to be connected with the family of William Gogha found in Meshaw (about 10 miles distant but in the same Hundred) in the SR for 1333.