Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Mapledre 1086 DB

• Mapeldra 1088–95 BrutC 1100–3 Ch 1332 BrutC c.1155 Ch 1155–8 1332

• (apud) mapeldream 1121 AC

• Mapoldre 1189 ADIV

• Mapeldre 1216 ClR 1222 FF

• Mapheldre 1231 ib

• Mapeldur' 1258 For

• Mapaudre m12 Douce

• Mapodr(e) 13 GlastR 1236 Fees 1268 Ass 1297 Ipm 1332 SR

• Mapudr(e) 1227 FF 1256 Hutch3 1291 Tax 1386 Pat 1428 FA

• Mapedre 1244 Ass 1281 Fine

• Mappodre 1251 Pap

• Mapeudre 1346 Cl

• East Mapoder, West Mapoder 1414 Hutch3

• Mapwod' 1226 Cur

• Maupodr(e) 1227 FF 1268 Ass 1305 Ipm

• Maupudre 1249 FF 1260 Pat 1270 For 1280,1288 Ass 1303 FA 1307 FF 1311 ForReg 15

• Marpedereye (sic) 1280 Ass

• Mapoudre 1280 Ass 1303 FA 1328 Ipm 1449 BMI

• Mapowdre 1438 Cl 1442 Ilch 1447 BMI

• Mapowder 1446 Pat 1567 Hutch3

• Mapouwdre 1450 Cl

• Mapouder 1497 Ilch

• Estmapowder 1504 Ipm

• Maupoudr(e) 1274,1330 Pat 1338–40 Glast 1399 Cl

• Mawpowder 1547 Ct

• Maypowder 1575 Saxton

Etymology

'(Place at) the maple-tree', v. mapuldor , ēast , west , cf. East Town (e ) (in Mapouder )1543, 1546 Hutch3. DB Mapertune (f.75, ExonMapertona ) is also identified with Mappowder by C. & F. Thorn, Domesday Book : Dorset , Phillimore, 1983, cf. the comment s.n. Mapperton 256; the two names may have been confused, or the form with tūn may represent a genuine alternative.