Atchen Hill
Early-attested site in the Parish of St Johns in Bedwardine
Historical Forms
- ætinc weg, ættinc weg 963 BCS1106 11th
- ættingc gærstun c.970 BCS1139 18th
- Estenhill 1649 Surv
Etymology
All these names alike would seem to contain the pers. name Æti , linked with weg , gærstun and hyll by the suffix ing , so that we have mention of a road, a grassy-enclosure and a hill associated with one Æti , that name being a pet-form of an OE name in Ēad -, possibly Ēadsige , as in the historical instance of the archbishop of that name who signs himself Aeti (KCD 784).The same pers. name lies behind Atcham (Sa) and ætingden in Kent (BCS 442) which is possibly to be identified with Etchden in Bethersden (1460 BM Hacchesden ).