Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Bag(g)herug', Bageregge, Bagerug(h)' 1250 Fees

• Bagerughe 1250 ib

• Bargarich' 1251–2 ib

• Baggerigg(e) 1268 Ass 1274–86 Ipm 1275 RH 1280 Ass 1285 FA

• Baggeriche 1268 Ass

• Baggerig 1275 RH

• Bagerig 1274 Ipm

• Bagerigge 1274–86 ib

• Baggeridge or Baggeridge-Street 1774 Hutch1

• Baggridge 1795 Boswell

• Bagrichstrete 1251–2 Fees

• Baggerigsted' 1260 Cl

• Baggeriggestrete 1268 Ass 1275 RH 1285 FA

• Bagerichesstrete, Baggerugestrete 1274 Ipm

• Bagerigestrete 1288 Ass

• Bagrigstret 1325 Inqaqd

• Baggeruggestrete 1353 Fine 1446 et freq

• Bageryngestrete 1429,1435 Midd

• Baggeringe Strete 1551 ib

Etymology

The first el. of both this and the following name is probably an OE  bagga 'bag', either as a topographical word 'bag-like hill' or as the name of some animal, possibly 'badger', although the OE  pers.n. Bacga is also formally possible, v. the discussion in EPN 1 17, DEPN s. n. Bagley. The second el. of Baggeridge is hrycg 'ridge', referring to the narrow 230′ -high ridge S of Knowle Hill; cf. Badgemore O 65, Baggridge So (DEPN). The alternative form Baggeridge Street probably means 'hamlet at Baggeridge ', with ME  strete in the sense 'hamlet, straggling village'. The spellings in -sted ' (1260) and -rynge -, -ringe - (15th and 16th cent.) are probably errors. In 1774 Hutch1 260, it is stated that Baggeridge (Street ) 'seems formerly to have been a hamlet. Its situation and name is now scarcely known'; on the location of the site of this settlement near Bagman's Copse (foll.), v. C. C. Taylor, DoNHAS 88 209–210.