Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Gopeshill' 1248 Ass

• Gopeshull 1322 MinAcct 1328 Banco

• Gopeshull iuxta Teukesbury 1318 FF

• Gopishulle 1298 Ipm 1315 Hopt

• Gopushull' 1325 FF 1328 Banco 1426 Cl

• Gopushull' in Southwyk 1426 IpmR

• Goppeshulle 1287 Ass

• Copushull' 1248 Ass

• Cupsill 1591 FF

• Goupeshull 1363 Inq

• Guppeshull 1535 VE 1540 AOMB c.1560 Surv

• Guppeshull als. Coppishill 1592 FF 1627 Inq

• Goopshill als. Gupshill 1610 FF

• Gupshill 1619 Dep

• Gupsell 1701 Will

• Gubshill 1772 ib

• Guppesfeld, Guppfylde 1520,1533 ECP

Etymology

There was also a manor of Guppesfeld , Guppfylde 1520, 1533 ECP.'Guppi's hill and open country', v. hyll , feld . The pers.n. is an unrecorded OE  Guppi , which has a mutated variant Gyppi in Gibsmere (Nt 155), and also, as Ekwall shows, a weak form Guppa in such p.ns. as Gupworthy (So) or Guppy (Do); it is a hypocoristic form of an OE  pers.n. like Gūðbeorht . Cups Hill (36supra ) is probably named from this place.