Shotteswell
Major Settlement in the Parish of Shotteswell
Historical Forms
- Soteswalle c.1135 France
- Soteswell(e) c.1140 1201 Cur 1221,1262 FF
- Shoteswell 1165 P 1233 FineR 1291 Tax 1393 ADiv
- S(c)hotewell(a) 1187,1190 P 1315 Ipm
- Schoteswell 1189 P
- Scoteswell 1221 FF
- Scotiswell 1260 Ass
- Schotewell 1190 P
- Sotteswell 1235 Fees
- Chetteswell 1315 Ipm
- Shotteswell 1428 FA 1535 VE
- Shotteswell al. Shatswell 1756 Recov
- Shatswell 1705 FF
Etymology
'Scot 's well or spring,' v. wielle . For the pers. name cf. Shutscombe and Shaftsborough (PN D 62, 54). Dugdale (415) notes that there is a “fair spring issuing out of the Hill there.”