Shurdington
Major Settlement in the Parish of Shurdington
Historical Forms
- Surditona c.1150 BM
- Surdinton, Surdynton 1220 Cur 1221 Ass 1303 FA
- Surdington 1283 Ch
- Schurdentone 1148 Glouc
- S(c)hurdinton, S(c)hurdynton 1221 Ass 1327 Ipm 1328 Banco 1376 Ipm
- S(c)hurdington, S(c)hurdyngton 1356 FF 1363 Ipm 1605 Rec
- Magna S(c)hurdyngton 1338 FF
- Scerdintonam 1157–81 Glouc
- Sherdynton 1318 Ch
- Schirrdinton' 1221 FF
- Chirdyngton 1292 Orig
- Shirdyngton, Shyrdyngton 1456 IpmR 1465 Pat
- Magna Shyrdyngton 1322 Abbr
- Schordington, Schordyn(g)ton 1287 Ass 1295 Episc
- Magna Schordyn(g)ton 1511 FF
- Sourdinton 14 ADi
- Shardington, Shardyngton 1327 Ipm
- Shardyngton als. Shurneton 1592 FF
- Magna Shrudyngton 1397 FF
- Shiryngton 1475 Pat
- Sherrington 1551 Will
- Shoryngdon 1523 GlR
- Shorington 1535 VE
- Sharnton magna 1544 FF
- Shernton 1577 M
- Shureton 1574 Will
- Shurnton 1691 AddRoll
- Scherdenberwe 941 BCS 768
Etymology
This p.n. remains without a satisfactory etymology. Ekwall's suggestion that it contains OE (WSax ) *scierde , *scyrde 'gap, pass' (v. scerde ) is improbable topographically; Shurdington is at the foot of a steep hill and nothing in the local relief could be described as a pass or gap. In any case we should have to assume a late WSax form scyrde to account for the numerous Shurd - spellings (and occasional Schord - and Shird -), with Sherd - representing the Merc *scerde ; such a WSax base is unlikely in this northerly part of the county but cannot be completely rejected. In that case we may rather have an OE byname Scyrda , ultimately related to the ON byname Skarði 'hare-lipped' or the like; an OE Scerda may be found in Scherdenberwe 941 BCS 768 in Dorset, though an OE variant Scyrda (from a different grade *skurð -, as in ON skurðr by the side of skarð ) would remove the difficulty of deriving it from an exclusively WSax form. v. -ing 4 , tūn .