Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• gloran ige 909 BCS627 c.1150

• Gloreney 1288 Rental

• Glorneye 1225 ClR

• Glornyʒ 1258 Pat

• Glornie 1267 Rental

• Glorney 1595 MinAcct

• terr. voc. Glourney in decenn. de Badshott 1664 MinAcct

Etymology

There is a Scandinavian nickname Glóra (LindB) which may be the source of the pers. name Glor recorded in the 10th cent. in the Liber Eliensis and found in Glooston (Lei) DBGlorstone .It is exceedingly unlikely that a pers. name of Scand. origin would be found in Surrey in the 10th cent. It may be, however, that its English cognate was at one time current in this country.Torp (s. v. glora ) connects the Scandinavian name and word with English dialectal glore , 'to shine, glisten.' This verb is found also in other LG languages, and suggests the existence in OE  of a lost vb. glōran , from the stem of which may have been derived an OE  pers. name Glōr (a ). The second element is OE  eg, 'well-watered land.'