Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Sotton Galt Bridge 1662 BLAcct

• Gaull extra Whiddon 1392 Wren

• Sutton Galt 1637 BedL

• Sutton Golt or Gravell 1672 FenS

Etymology

Gault Bridge (6″) is Sotton Galt Bridge 1662BLAcct . Gault Hole (6″) is possibly Gaull extra Whiddon 1392Wren . Sutton Gault is Sutton Galt 1637 BedL, Sutton Golt or Gravell 1672FenS . Cf. also Gaule Fen , the Gaultway 1637 BedL, the Gault Causeway 1785 ib., Gault Close c. 1840TA . Gault Bridge is over the New Bedford River, Sutton Gault is in the Wash, across which runs The Causeway (infra 241), probably the Gaultway and the Gault Causeway supra , and Gault Hole lies under the Hundred Foot Bank, some little distance from Widden's Hill infra , so that the name must once have covered a wider area. All lie low and we probably have ME  galle , 'marshy ground,' cf. infra 325. The final t is dialectal. There is clay near, but no gault.