Lowdham
Major Settlement in the Parish of Lowdham
Historical Forms
- Ludehā 1086 DB
- Ludeham 1149–53 DuLa 1276 RH
- Ludhā 1086 DB
- Ludham 1088 Dugdiv c.1200 Wollaton 1211 RBE 1212,1242 Fees 1218 FF
- Ludam c.1170 Wollaton
- Luddeham 1192 France 1201 Dugdiv
- Ludenham 1255 Pat
- Luddham 1257 Cl
- Loud(h)am 1257,1299 Ipm 1302 FA 1319 FF
- Loutham 1385 BM
- Loudeham 1280,1335 Ass
- Lowdam 1497 Wollaton
- Lowdeham 1515 NtIpm
- Lowtham al. Lowdam 1678 FF
- Lewdham al. Lowdham 1726 Recov
Etymology
With Ekwall (DEPN) we might take this to be 'Hlūda 's ham' from a man bearing the unrecorded nickname *Hlūda , 'loud one,' or say that hlūde , 'loud one' may have been an alternative name for Cocker Beck (supra 3) but this is a case in which one can be really definite about toponymics. The Cocker Beck is a slowly-moving clay stream and the hlūde interpretation impossible. We may further compare the form Hludantun for Lutton (L) found in a pseudo-charter of the 10th century printed in Collect . Topographica et Genealogica iv, 54. In Lutton, just as in Lowdham, a 'loud' stream is out of the question.