Guiting Power
Major Settlement in the Parish of Guiting Power
Historical Forms
- fontanum quod nominatur Gytingbroc 780 BCS236 11th
- bi Gythinge 814 11th ib
- on Gytinc, on Gytincges æwylm 974 11th ib
- on Gyting, on Gytin(c)ges æwylm(e), of Gytin(c)ges æwylm(e) 987 KCD660 11th
- Getinge 1086 DB
- Gettinges 1221 Ass
- Gettinges Poer 1220 Fees
- Gettinge le Poers 1287 QW
- Getyngpower 1476 IpmR
- Guting(e), Gutyng(e) 1265 Pat 1274 RH 1282 Cl 1287 Ass 1291 Tax
- Gutyng(e) inferior' 1185 Templar 1284 Episc
- Gutyng(e) Po(u)er 1287 Ass 1292 Episc
- Nether Gutyng(e) 1291 Tax 1354 Ipm
- Gutinges 1241 FF
- Giting(e), Gyting(e), Gytyng(e) 1220 Cur
- Nether Gytyng(e) 1482 FF 1535 VE 1548 ADv
- Gytyng(e) Power 1696 PR
- Gitinges 1220 Cur
- Guttinges 1221 Ass
- Gutting', Guttyng 1221 Eyre
- Guttyng le Poeres 1287 QW
- Guttyng Poer 1287 Ass
- Guiting, Guyting, Guytyng(e) 1248 Ass 1253 Ch 1317 Ipm
- Guytyng(e) Po(w)er 1327 SR 1362 Ass 1491 Ipm
- Guytyng(e) inferior 1535 VE 1612 FF
- Lower Guytyng(e) 1742 PR
- Gitting(e), Gittyng 1270 Ipm
- Gittyng inferior 1291 Episc
- Nether Gittyng 1543 FF
- Nether Gittyng als. Gittyng Powre 1587 ib
- Gwyt(t)yng(e), Gwyt(t)ing 1287 Ass
- Gwyt(t)ing power 1543 LP
- Gwyt(t)ing Powre 1575 FF
- Goutinghe inferiori 1291 Tax
- le Poher 1220 Cur, 1221 Ass 3d
- le Poer 1241 FF 14, 251, Will
- le Poer 1287 ib 129, etc.
Etymology
The OE spellings (except that in BCS 351) refer to a stream (presumably the upper part of the Windrush), from which the two villages of Guiting (cf. Temple Guiting 13infra ) are named; the occasional ME spellings in -inges are plur. forms and denote these two villages, in modern local use 'the Guitings'. The name is from OE gyte 'a pouring forth, a flood', with the r.n.-forming suffix -ing2 (cf. RN 187), and is similar in meaning to OE gyte -strēam 'running stream'. The village of Guiting Power is lower down the valley, hence 'Nether', and it was a manor of the family of le Poer (Roger le Poher 1220 Cur, 1221Ass 3d, John le Poer 1241FF 14, 251, Will' le Poer 1287 ib 129, etc.). On the variant forms cf. Phonol. § 30.