Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Bolem'tona 1107 Ch 1330

• Bothehamton 1268 Ass

• Bothehampton(') 1467 MinAcct 1535 VE

• Both(h)ampton' 1445,1467 MinAcct

• Botehampton' 1467 ib

• Bothenamtone 1285 FA

• Bothenhamton(') 1307,1310 Brid 1436 Brid

• Bothnamton

• Bouthenhamtun

• Bothenhampton 1322 Brid 1463 Rent

• Bothenempton' 1310 Brid

• Bogthenhampton' 1327 SR

• Bothonhampton' 1436 Brid

• iuxta Brideport 1445 Ilch

• Bathenanton' 1310 Brid

• Bathenhampton 1497 Ct

• Baunton 1330 Drew 1497,1545 Ct 1610 Speed

• Baunton or Bothenhampton 1863 Hutch3

• Bamton (sic) 1332 Drew

• Bawmpton 1535 VE

Etymology

'Home farm by the valley bottom', from OE  boðm and hām-tūn. In the detailed study of this and similar names by Ann Cole, JEPN 2042, the first el. is taken to refer to 'the silted-up estuary of the R. Brit…a flat-floored, lowlying, easily flooded area some 0.5 by 2 km. with abruptly rising sides'.