Clattsmore
Early-attested site in the Parish of Bredons Norton
Historical Forms
- Clottesmor 972 BCS1282 c.1050
Etymology
The first element in this name would seem to be OE clott , used significantly or else as a pers. name. The word clott , denoting a clot or lump, seems occasionally, at least in alliterative poetry, to have been used of a heap or hill, and it is conceivable that here we have it used in a genitival compound, 'marshland of or marked by a hillock,' but more probably we have the word used as a pers. name, by origin a nickname, and that the name means 'Clott 's marshy ground.' For a similar pers. name cf. Cladswell infra 325.