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.