Preshute
Major Settlement in the Parish of Preshute
Historical Forms
- Prestcheta 1185 P
- Prestchet c.1220 HMCVar1 1247 Pat
- Preschet(e) 1223 SarumCh 1232 HMCVar1 1272 FF
- Presteshethe 1249 Ass
- Preschut(e) 1252 SarumCh 1268 Ass
- Preshut 1329 Pat 1614 FF
- Prestchut(e) 1279,1281,1289 Ass 1290 For 1297 Pat 1338,1404 Pat
- Prestshute juxta Marlebergh 1312 Ass
- Prestcheut, Prestchuyt t.Ed2 For
- Presthut 1428 FA
- Prestechut 14th Bradenstoke 1331 Stowe
- Prestechuyt 1381 MinAcct
- Pershute 1321 Pat 1322 Ipm
- Perschuyt 1385 Cl
- Presshett 1530,1568 Recov
- Presshatte 1553 WMi
- Presshyatt 1553 Pat
- Pres(h)ate t.Eliz WMxxi
Etymology
This name is not an easy one. The forms make it clear that the second element is chete , chute rather than schete , schute . One might, as Ekwall notes (DEPN), suggest that the second element was another example of Chute (supra 12) and that the whole name means 'Chute belonging to a priest.' More probably, as Ekwall himself suggests, we have OE cīete , 'cottage, cell.'The word is in common use in OE, especially in association with monks and anchorites and is probably found also in the unidentified place (on ) cygean cytan (BCS 870) in the bounds of Knoyle, and may well be the first element in Chitterne supra 163. Hence 'priest's cottage(s).'