Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Cingam 1086 DB

• Ginkes 1197 FF

• Ginge le viel defens 1201 BM

• Botolfvespirie 1219 FF

• Botulvespirie, Botulvespirye 1231,1300 Cl

• Botolvespirie, Botolvespirye 1232 FF 1247 Cl

• Botulfs Pirye 1370 Pat

• Botulphesperye 1392 IpmR

• Ginges, Gynges 1223 FF

• Gynges Joberti 1230 ib

• Gynges Jordani 1231 Cl

• Gyngesjoiberd 1247 Ch

• Gynges Laundri 1232 Bracton 1236 FF

• Gynges Landri, Gynges Johiberd 1234 FF

• Gynges de Goyberd Landr' 1238 SR

• Gynges Laundry, Gynges Geyberd 1253 Ch

• Gyng(e) 1255 Ass

• Gyng(e) Joyberd 1305 FF

• Gyng(e) Joybert, Gyng(e) Joyberd, Gyng(e) Laundri, Gyng(e) Landry 1303,1346 FA

• Gengeioriberd laundry 1361 Hustings

• Bottesbury 1374 Hustings

• Buttisbery 1470 BM

• Buttysbury 1535 VE 1551 EAS(NS)i

• Buttesbury 1548 Pat

• Botelespirie 1375 Cl

• Botilisbery 1412 FA

• Botyllesperye 1456 BM

• Butlisbury 1467–72 ECP

• Ynggynyay Laundry, Buttesvery 1476 IpmR

• Butterbury 1503 EASvii

• Bursburye 1602 Stent

• Yng, Gyngy, Jaber laundrell 1537 HMCx

• Gingesjoiberd (1233 FF)

Etymology

For Ginges , v. Margaretting infra 258. The attributes are names of former tenants; Goisbert de Inge (1141), Roger de Ginges, son of Jordan , son of Landri (Landricus 1166) (v. EAS xiv, 237–8). le viel defens is the same as 'the wood which is called le defens ' (1207 FF), which seems to be contrasted with 'the wood called Utwode .' v. Outwood Fm supra 147. defens or defensum is used of an enclosed wood, and is identical with ME  hey . v. EAS xviii, 5.

The compound manorial name was used indiscriminately of the parish and of the manors which descended to the Blund family. Originally, the various names denoted different places.Simon Blund held land both in the town of Botolvespirye and in Gingesjoiberd (1233 FF). The latter would represent Great Blunts, for in 1235 Simon gave to Henry le Turc half an acre of land in Ginge Johiberd “lying next the land of William Blund towards the west” (FF i, 99). v. Turkshill Wood infra 244.Ginges Landri was apparently near Buckwins (ib. 113), and is probably the modern Little Blunts.

The modern name means 'Botolph 's pear-tree' (v. pirige ), and most probably referred originally to the district round Perry Street (infra ), about three-quarters of a mile south of Little Blunts.