English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

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Bottesford

Major Settlement in the Parish of Bottesford

Historical Forms

  • Budlesforde 1086 DB
  • Bulesforde (sic) 1086 DB
  • Botlesforda c1115 LS
  • Botlesforde c1128 ChronPetro 12 RAii c1265
  • Botlesford(') 1196 ChancR 1202,1203 Ass 1223 RAii 1240 FF 1379 Cl
  • Botelesford(') 1220 Cur 1226 FF 1230 Cur 1230 FF 1376 Cl
  • Botellesford 1332 ib
  • Bothelesford 1236–47 YChx
  • Bottlisford' 1242–43 Fees
  • Botleford' 1254 ValNor
  • Botelforde c1265 RAii
  • Botilford 1346 FA
  • Botilforth 1428 ib
  • Botenesford(') 1189 Selby e14 RAii c1210 Cur 1220 Fine 1282 RAii 1290 AD l12 Ipm 1300 DCAcct 1446
  • Botenesfordia c1190 RAii
  • Botenesforde iuxta Messingham 1305 ib
  • Botensford 1297 AD
  • Bottensfort 1275 RH
  • Bottenesford 1443,1479 DCAcct 1526 Sub
  • Bottenesforth 1519 DV 1566 Pat
  • Botnesford(') 1204 ChR 1271 Ch
  • Botnesford(') in Lyndeseye 1272 FF 1305,1306 RAii 1338 Hosp 1522 CA 1535 VEiv
  • Bottnesford 1601,1606 Terrier
  • Bottnesforth otherwise Bottsford 1760 DCLB
  • Botenforde c1263 RAii
  • Botenford 1276 RH 1314 KR
  • Botisford c1189 Selby e14
  • Botesford 1212 Fees 1375 Pat 1393 Pap 1409 RRep
  • Botesforth 1637 Foster
  • Botysford 1428 FA
  • Bottesford(') 1220 Cur 1220 Welles 1398 Pap 1445 Pat 1526 Sub
  • Bottesforth 1548 ChantCert
  • Bottesforthe 1548 PrState
  • Bottesford alias Bottnesforth 1590,1599 DCLB
  • Botesforde als Bottesforth 1607 ib
  • Bottisford 1535 VEiv 1576 LER 1679 Terrier
  • Bottisforth alias Bottnesforth 1584 ib
  • Bottisford als Bottisforth 1664 DCLB
  • Botsford 1638 Foster
  • Bottesworthe 1558–79 ChancP 1576 Saxton 1614 Hall
  • Bottsworthe 1586 ib
  • Bottsworth 1696 Pryme

Etymology

'The ford belonging to the building, house', v. botl (in the gen.sg.), ford , identical with Bottesford Lei. It was presumably a ford over Bottesford Beck. The interchange of the consonants l and n is due to AN influence. The replacement of -ford by -worth in some 16th and 17th centuries spellings is noteworthy.