Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Chartknolle 1811 OS 1863 Hutch3

• Chartnole Farm, N Chartnole & S Chartnole 1839 TA

• Charteray 1240 Sarum 1327 SR 1415 IpmR

• land in Stoke Abbas alias Charterhays' 1414 Hutch3

• 'the manor of Charterhays' 1543 1603 ib

• Charterey 1431 FA

• mannor of Stoke Abbotte and Charterhay 1667 WRO 1774 Hutch1 1795 Boswell

Etymology

Chart Knolle (Fm) (ST 456014), Chartknolle 1811 OS, 1863 Hutch3, Chartnole Farm , N Chartnole & S Chartnole 1839TA , to be associated with Charteray 1240 Sarum (p), 1327 SR (p), 1415 IpmR, 'land in Stoke Abbas alias Charterhays '1414 Hutch3, 'the manor of Charterhays '1543 ib, 1603 ib, Charterey 1431 FA, mannor of Stoke Abbotte and Charterhay 1667WRO , 1774 Hutch1 ('a manor and farm'), 1795 Boswell. In the modern spelling the word knoll 'hillock' (referring to Chart Knolle which reaches 600′ just W of the farm) has been added to what appears to be a reduced form of the earlier Charteray ; this was almost certainly a manorial name from a family so called, cf. Catherston Leweston par. infra some 7 miles SW named from the same family, likewise Beer Charter PN D 32, and v. Tengvik 81–2 who suggests the French  p.n. Carteret (La Manche) as the origin of the surname. According to Hutch1 1 275 Charterhay is 'a manor and farm two miles W from Stoke Abbas' (and therefore distinct from Chart Knolle which lies ½ mile N of the village), cf. the description in Hutch3 2 148 of Chartknolle as 'a farm… anciently parcel of the manor of Stoke Abbas and Charterhay'.