Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Widetone 1086 DB

• Wotton(') 1268 Ass 1270 For 1288 Ass 1315 Pat 1547 Ct

• Wottun 1270 For

• Wotton' Glannvill 1317 FF

• Wotton' Glaunvyle 1337 Ipm

• Wotton' Glamvyle 1340 NI 1558 PlR

• Wottingglayvile (sic) 1291 Tax

• Wotton Glaunvyle alias Wolverne Wotton 1428 FA

• Wotton' Glandevile alias Gland(e)viles Wotton' 1625 AddCh

• Wolfrenewotton, Wolvernewotton 1303 FA

• Wolverene Wotton 1311 Pat

• Wolvernewotte (sic) 1317 MiltC

• Wolvern Wotton 1346 FA

• Woutton Glaunvylle 1344 Pat

• Wootton Glanvyll 1533,1553 PlR

• Wootton Glandfeild 1660 Bent

• Glamvileswotton 1396 FF

• Glamuyleswotton, Glamvyleswotton 1424 Weld1 1431 FA

• Glanvile Wotton 1428 ib

• Glanvyll' Wotton 1431 Weld1

• Glainveldes Wotton' 1499 CampbCh

• Claundeveldis Wotton' 1500 AddCh

• Glanfyld Wotton, Glanfild Wotton 1535 VE

• Glande feldes Wotton 1569–74 Map

• Glanfe(i)lde(s) Wotton 1575 Saxton 1606 Lane 1770 DuCo 1617

• Glandfeild' Wotten 1664 HTax

• Glanvilles Wooton 1811 OS

Etymology

'Farm in or near a wood', v. wudu , widu , tūn , one of the three Do pars, so named; it is in Blackmoor Forest infra .The manorial affix is from the Glanville family, cf. Geoffrey de Gla (u )nvile 1258, 1270For , Mabel de Glamuill 1268Ass , Henry de Glaunvyle 1303 FA, etc; the surname is from Glanville in Normandy (Tengvik 89–90). The alternative affix Wolfrene -, etc, apparently in use only in the first half of the 14th cent., probably represents the well-recorded OE  fem. pers.n. Wulfrūn as suggested by Fägersten 208, although no one with this name has been noted in connection with this place, cf. DEPN s.nn. Wollerton Sa, Wolverhampton St.