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Survey of English Place-Names

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Roding

Major Settlement in the Parish of The Rodings

Historical Forms

  • duae Rotinges 1042–66 LibEl 12th
  • duae Rodinges c.1050 KCD907 14th
  • Rodinges 1086 DB
  • alia 1086 InqEl
  • Rodingas 1100–35 Abingdon 1198 Colch
  • Rodyngas t.Hy1 Colne
  • Rothinges 10th LibEl 12th Colch 1119
  • Blaunche Rothinges 1281 Ch
  • Rothinges Alba 1306 Londin
  • altera Rothingas 1086 InqEl
  • Rothynges 1256 FF
  • Roinges 1086 DB 1114–22 Colne 1119–98 Colch
  • altera Roinges 1202 Colne 1248–55 Ass
  • Roynges 1119 Colch 1235–54 Ass
  • Rohinges 1198 CurR a.1272 Colch
  • Royenges, Roeyinges 1235 Ass, Fees
  • Roenges 1260 FF
  • Rodincg(a)s 1086 InqEl
  • Radyngas t.Hy1 Colne
  • Blancherathynges 1282 Ch
  • Roing(e) 1119 Colch 1254 Ass
  • Royng(e) 1212 RBE 1218–39 FF 1235–54 Ass
  • Roeng' 1251 1254 Ass
  • Roeing 1261 Fees
  • Rouing t.Hy3 Ipm
  • Roynch 1274 RH
  • Reyng(es) 1235–48 Ass
  • Reinges 1254 ib
  • Alba Raynges 1236 Fees
  • Rainges 1244 FF
  • Rothing(e) 1248 Ass
  • Rothing(e) Masy 1547 FF
  • Rothyng 1254 EASxviii 1300 FF 1346 Cl 1374 FF
  • Rothingg 1303 FA
  • Rodyng 1291 FF 1428 FA 1551 FF
  • Eytrope Wrothinge 1309 Inqaqd
  • (White)rouching(g)e 1329 Ipm 1346 Pat
  • Rosynge 1400 Ass
  • High Redyng 1490 Pat
  • Rooding 1535 VE 1713 Deed
  • White Ruding 1688 ERxv
  • Rooden 1690–7 ERxxxi
  • Roothing t.Jas1 ChancP

Etymology

The river Roding is clearly a back-formation from the villages called Roding or Roothing (RN 345). Zachrisson (AN Influence 89) and Ekwall (PN in -ing 48) agree in taking these villages to represent the settlement of the people of Hrōða .Hroða would be a regular pet-form of one of the numerous common OE  personal names in Hroð - or may have been used independently. It is clear that the settlement of the Hroðingas covered a large area (cf. Introd. xxii).

Places in the same Parish

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