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.

Reading Hundred

Hundred in the County of Berkshire

Historical Forms

  • Redinges, Radinges 1086 DB
  • Redingia c.1125 Anderson
  • Rading' 1169 P 1220 Fees
  • Radinge 1186,1188 P
  • Rad(d)ing 1275–6 RH
  • Radyng' 1316 FA

Etymology

Named from Reading infra 170.