Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Gissic 871–7 ShaftR(S357(1)) 15

• Gersicg 871–7 15 ib

• Gyssyh Hy1 ShaftR 15

• Gussich(e) e13 Wim 1428 FA

• Gersiz 1205 RC

• Gessich(') 1242 Ch 1244 Ass

• Gesriche (sic) 1244 ib

• Gissiche 1288 FF

• Gussych 1431 FA c.1500 Eg

• Guss(h)ygge 1432 Pat

• Gyssyg', Gussach c.1500 Eg

• Gissik St Andrews 1258 Ch

• Gyssich St Andrew 1260 FF 1409 Pat

• Gussich(e) Sancte Andr' 1268 Ass

• Gussich(e) Sancti Andr(ee) 1280 15 ShaftR 1575 Glyn

• Gussich(e) St Andrew(s) 1336 Fine 1374 Pat

• Gisshych' Sancti Andr(ee), Gysshych' Sancti Andr(ee), Gissich Sancti Andr(ee), Gyssich Sancti Andr(ee) 1280 1288 Ass

• Guschich St Andrew 1337 Ipm

• Gussuch St Andrew's 1356 ib

• Gussach Sancti Andree c.1500 Eg

• Gussage Sancti Andree 1535 VE

• Gussage St Andrewe(s) 1618 Map 1620 Ilch

• Gussage St Andrew, Higher or Upper-Gussage 1774 Hutch1

Etymology

For etymology and for other early forms, v. Gussage All Snts par. 2 276, cf. also M. Gelling, Place -Names in the Landscape (1984) 29, for the suggestion that the name may rather be from a word related to the postulated gyse with the noun-forming suffix -ic . St Andrew is from the dedication of the church, earlier a chapel. The late affix Higher or Upper is from its position relative to Gussage St Michael par. (Middle ) and Gussage All Snts par. (Lower ), cf. also foll.The forms Gessich Gentil 1236 FF, etc, placed under Gussage All Snts 2276 (following Fägersten 92), are identified with this Gussage by Drew, who also cites Guschich Gentill 1283, John Gentyl of Gyssich St Andrew 1291 Banco.