Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Pidele 1086 DB

• Pidelebardolveston 1257 Cl

• Pidele Bardolfeston 1257 Ipm

• Pidele Bardalston 1285 FA

• Pud(d)el(e) Bardolveston 1339 Cl 1385,1419 IpmR

• Pidel Bardolf, Pydele Bardolf, Pudel(l)(e) Bardolf 1264 1264 MiltRoll e15 ChrP 1306 Ch 1372 1384

• Pudel Bardalf 1264 MiltRoll e15

• Bardolf Pidel 1342 IpmR

• Bardolveston 1264,1282 Ipm 1383 AddRoll

• 'Bardolveston by Pudelton' 1397 Cl

• Bardoluyston 1264 MiltRoll e15

• Bardolueston 1288 Ass

• Bardufueston 1280 ib

• Bardolf(e)ston 1282 Hutch3 1303 FA 1332 SR 1405 AddRoll

• Bardalston 1285 FA 1327 SR

• Bardolston 1303,1412 FA

• Bardalveston 1346,1428 ib

• Bardel(v)(e)ston 1401 Cl 1405 AddRoll 1412 FA 1539 AOMB

• Bardalfston 1431 FA

• Bradolveston by Pudeletune 1415 Fine

• Bardolphweston 1774 Hutch1

• Pudel Barston als. Bardolfeston 1594 Hutch3

• via regia apud Barson Hill 1627 Wal

• Boston (Plant.), Lower Basan, Bason Hill or Eighteen Acres, Bason Hill or Seven Acres 1839 TA

• Bardolfueshulle 15 ChrP

Etymology

A manor on R. Piddle or Trent (cf. Affpuddle par. supra ) once held by the Bardolf family (Ralph Bardolf 1244 Ch, Drogo Bardolf 1272 ib, Richard Bardolf 1288Ass , etc.; they were probably descended from Bardulph (the OG  pers.n. Bardulf ) de Chiselburneford (v. foll.), also called Bussel , c. 1165 MontC, who was himself descended from the DB tenant of Little Cheselbourne, Roger Boisell , v. Fägersten 176–7), v. tūn 'farm, estate'. Bardolfueshulle 15ChrP no doubt belonged to the same family, v. hyll . The 13th cent. Drogo Bardolf probably gave his name to Druce Fm infra . For the deserted medieval village here, v. RCHM 3229, cf. Church Knap infra .