Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Goutebi 1086 DB c.1130 LeicSurv 1154×77 Rut l.12(freq),e.13 GarCart Edw1 Rut

• Goutebia c.1130 LeicSurv

• Gouteby l.12 Wyg l.12 GarCart 1202 FF 1265 BHosp Hy3 Crox 1361 WoCart 1449 Cl 1381 Fine 1421 FA 1428

• Gouteby Quartremars 1242 Fees

• Gouteby iuxta Waltham 1308 Banco 1346 Pat

• Gouteby Maureward 1311,1380 Banco

• Gowtebi 1251 RGros

• Gowteby l.13 Wyg

• Gouthebi l.12 GarCart

• Goutheby p.1274 BHosp

• Goltebi 1086 DB

• Gawteby 1428 MiD

• Gauteby 1429 Fine

• Goudeby 1346 Ipm 1381 SR 1460 Hastings 1504 Banco

• Gowedeby 1414 Pat 1484 Cl

• Gaudeby 1473 CCR

• Gaudebe 1528 LWills

• Gawdeby 1526,1530 AAS 1539 Deed 1546 Rut

• Gaudby 1520 Crox 1535 VE

• Godeby(e) 1462,1464 Pat 1606 Ipm 1610 Speed

• Godey(e) Morwode 1576 Fine

• Godby 1535 VE 1537 MinAccts

• Godby alias dicta Gawdby 1541 Nichols

• Goodby 1576 LibCl

• Goadbye Maureward 1629 Surv

• Goadby Maurewood 1725 LML

• Galfridus Maureward, Gaufridus Maureward 1247 Ass

• Thomas Maureward 1428 FA

Etymology

'Gauti's farmstead, village', v. bȳ , cf. Goadby in Gartree Hundred.The ON  pers.n. Gauti either represents short forms of names in Gaut - or is an original by-name meaning 'a man from Gautland', v. SPNLY 98.The DB form Goltebi is an AN inverted spelling. Ante-consonantal l was frequently vocalized to u . The substitution of th for t in late 12th and 13th cent. forms is the result of AN  orthographical interchange between the symbols th and t for etymological t .

Ada de Quartremars , the last of the Quartremars family, lords of the manor of Goadby, married Gaufridus Maureward in the reign of Henry III. The Maureward family is recorded as holding Goadby from Galfridus Maureward , Gaufridus Maureward 1247 Ass to as late as Thomas Maureward 1428 FA. The village lies some one and a half miles northwest of Waltham on the Wolds, hence ~ iuxta Waltham 1308, 1346.