Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Dungesel 1288 Ass

• Dong(g)es(s)ell 1291 FF 1323 Cl

• Dong(g)esel(l)e 1323 For 1346 Cl

• Dunigesell 1322 Inqaqd

• Dungesel(l)es 1323 Misc 1327 Cl

• Donggesels 1331 FF

• Dongishill 1452 FF

• Dungeshyll 1539 Recov

• Burdes alias Dounsales 1483 IpmR

• Bawdys alias Dungesleys 1498 AddCh

• Bawdeshatch 1678 ERxxvii

• Downesells alias the Liste alias Bawedys 1566 AddCh

• le Baud 1282 FF

Etymology

The forms are too late for any certainty. The name may be 'the hall of the duningas ,' i.e. 'the dwellers on the open land,' v. dun , ing , sele . The place is on rising ground, some little distance below Pilgrims' Hatch, the highest land in the neighbourhood, which seems to have had an alternative name, Bawdeshatch .Bawdes from Walter le Baud (1282 FF). v. Bawd's Hall infra 138 and hæcc . Morant (i, 192) says that Doddinghurst List is part of South Weald and Kelvedon Hatch and that so much of Weald and Kelvedon as is reckoned in the List is in the Hundred of Barstable. It is clear therefore that list is used in the sense 'bound, boundary.'