Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Agglestone or Stone Barrow 1774 Hutch1

• Adlingston c.1586 Tres

• Adlingstone or Agglestone 1861 Hutch3

• Aglestone 1773 Bayly

Etymology

, 1811 OS , Agglestone or Stone Barrow 1774 Hutch1, Adlingston c. 1586 Tres, Adlingstone or Agglestone 1861 Hutch3, Aglestone 1773 Bayly , ' a very remarkable insulated block of iron - stone … about 80 feet in circumference and nearly 20 in height ' ( Kelly ) ; according to 1774Hutch1 1217 ' the country people call it The Devil 's Night - Cap ; and have a romantic tradition that the Devil , out of envy , threw it from the Isle of Wight , with a design to demolish Corfe Castle ; but it fell short , and dropped here ' ( cf. also Udal 172 ) ; Hutch 1 loc. cit. suggests derivation from hālig and stān , ' holy stone ' , and Arkell ( 1940 ) 40 suggests OE  hagolstān ' hailstone ' , but the 16th - cent. spelling shows that the name probably means ' prince's stone ' , from æðeling and stān , cf. Adlingfleet YW 22 , Allington par . infra .