Elstob
Major Settlement in the Parish of Great Stainton
Historical Forms
- Elestob 1235×6 Ass
- Ellestob 1235×6 1242 Ass 1364 RPD
- Ellesstobbe 1242 Ass
- Ellestubbe 1360 Pat
- Ellsstobe 1235×6 Ass
- Elstob late13th(p)etfreqto1551(p) GD c.1304 GD 1348 Spec 1358 Halm 1415 IPM 1480,1512 IPM 1707,1823 Eldon
- Elstob Estate in the Township of Elstob 1826 ib
- elstob 1560 Wills
- Helstob late13th Elemos 1366 Halm
- Eilstob c.1300 GD
- Elstobb 1345(p),1366(p) GD 1369,1627 IPM 1705 Eldon
- Holstob 1382 Hatf
- Elstobe 1384 Spec 1430 FPD 1551 GD
- Elstobb' 1417 Spec
- Elstobbe 1501 GD 1627 IPM
- Estobe 1582 Wills
- Elstobee 1660 CC
- Ellstobb 1698 Eldon
Etymology
'Elder-tree stump', OE ellern + stobb. According to Surtees III 46 Mrs Elizabeth Elstob, the famous Anglo-Saxon scholar, had seen a charter of 1304 in the family archives at Foxton whereby one Adam de Elnestobbe made a grant land there to the Knights Templar. The 1480, 1498 and 1512 IPM forms relate to the manor of Thomas Midilton of Silksworth; according to VCH III 346 the identification is correct, but there is an Elstob Ho in Tunstall nr Silksworth.