Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Gaveltone 1086 DB

• Gawelton(e) 1269 Ch

• Gawelton(e) iuxta Ogeres 1288 Ass

• Est Gawelton(e), West Gawelton(e) 1305 FF

• Gauelton 1280 Ass

• Este Gauelton 1288 1305 Ipm

• Galtone 1086 DB 1269 Ch

• Galdon 1212 Fees

• Galton 1268 Ass 1271 Ch 1361 Cl 1457 Weld1 1795 Boswell

• Gauton 1235–6 Fees

• Gaulton 1244 Ass 1269 Ch 1275 RH 1285 FA

• Est(e) Gaulton, Weste Gaulton 1288 Ass

• Est Gaulton 1319 Pat 1498 Ct

• Gauleton 1244 Ass

• Gawlton 1392 Ct

• Gauulton 1421 Weld1

• Gawleton 1440 Cl

• Ga(u)lwelton 1303 FA

• Galmelton 1399 Cl

• Gaulveton 1498 Ct

• Caulton 1389 Cl

Etymology

'Farm subject to tax or rent', v. gafol 2 , tūn , with ēast , west , cf. Owermoigne supra ; the reference to rent should perhaps be connected with the fact that the smaller of the two DB manors of Galton was held by four free men TRE who are probably identical with the four men holding it for a rent of 12s. 4d. in 1086 (VCHDo 334, 114).In any case, as Dr von Feilitzen points out, Ekwall's alternative suggestion for the first el. in DEPN, OE  gagel 'gale, bog-myrtle', is not possible in view of the DB form Gaveltone . The 13th-cent. form in -don shows confusion of the second el. with dūn 'hill'. There was a mill here in 1086 DB (VCHDo 3111).