Baverstock
Major Settlement in the Parish of Baverstock
Historical Forms
- Babbanstoc 968 WiltonReg 13th
- Babestoche 1086 DB
- Babestok 1225 SR 1231,1323 Cl 1242 Fees
- Babbestoch' 1225 SR
- Babbestok 1249,1268,1279,1289 Ass 1291 Tax
- Babstoke 1375 Cl 1394 Pat
- Baberstoke 1535 VE
- Baberstock 1558–79 ECP
- Baverstocke t.Eliz WMxxi
- Baverstoke 1568 FF
- Baberstocke al. Baverstocke 1716 Recov
Etymology
*Babba 's stoc or settlement.' This may well have been the same man who gave name to Bapton supra 161, about five miles distant.