English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Corston

Early-attested site in the Parish of Malmesbury

Historical Forms

  • Corstuna 1065 KCD817 14th
  • Corstone 1086 DB
  • Corston 1177 P
  • Coreston 1242 Fees
  • Corston juxta Malmesbury 1302 Ass
  • Corsen 1673 Sadler

Etymology

The place is on Gauze Brook supra 7 and the meaning is 'farm on the Cors (stream),' v. tun . Cf. Corston in Pembrokeshire (NCPNW 10) in which however cors probably denotes 'bog, swamp.'