Glynde
Major Settlement in the Parish of Glynde
Historical Forms
- Glinde, Glynde 1210 FF 1418 IpmR
- ate Glinde 1271 Ass
- Gline 1587 MarL 1610 Camd
- Glynd al. Glyne 1611 Recov
- Glynde al. Glindborne 1662 InstPRO
Etymology
This name must be taken along with Glynleigh, Glyne Manor, Picknill Green and Barline infra 446, 492, 493, 531, all of which clearly contain the same element, and with the unidentified Glynde of Gilbert atte Glynde de Westfeld, i.e. Westfield infra 505 and Norbiltonsglinde (1318Ct ) in Norbelton infra 441; the OE forms for the first and third names show the form of the word to be glind . It is impossible to find any common topographical factor in these places. Glynde is at the foot of the downs, Glynleigh and Picknill are on the marsh-levels, Glyne lies very low and Barline is on the spur of a hill. Middendorff (60) identifies this element with MLG glinde , 'fence, enclosure,' which is held to go back to earlier gelinde , gelende (Franck, Etymologisch Woordenbock s. v .), but, as Professor Ekwall points out, Förstemann (ON ii. 1067) has examples of compounds of glind going back to the 10th cent., so that the suggested etymology is probably wrong. He suggests the possibility that we may have a Germanic glend -, a side-form of the glent - found in Swedish glädnta , 'opening in a wood.' No certainty is possible but such an element would go quite well with leah (cf. Glintfelden in Förstemann loc. cit .). The form of the name and the topography of the places alike forbid association with the Celtic glen .