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.

Gambolds, Upper and Lower

Early-attested site in the Parish of Stoke Prior

Etymology

This is a name of the manorial type, Gamel being found as a pers. name in this vill in 1240 (WoP).