Godderthorn Hundred
Hundred in the County of Dorset
Historical Forms
- Goderonestona hundret c.1086 GeldR
- Godrunesthornhundredo 1194,1195 P
- (hund' de) Gudrenethorne 1268 Ass
- God(e)renethorne 1288 1327,1332 SR
- Goudrenethorn(e) 1325,1333,1337 Pat
- Gondrenesthorn (sic for Goudrenesthorn) 1326 Orig
- Goderisthon' 1212 Fees
- Gudredethorn', Guthredethorn' 1244 Ass
- Gouderedethorn 1431 FA
- Guyerenethorn (sic) 1244 Ass
- Gothethorn' 1280 Ass
- Gothernethorne 1285 FA
- Coderenethorn' 1288 Ass
- Go(u)dernethorn(e) 1303 FA 1334 Misc 1340 NI
- Goudernettethorn 1329 Ipm
- Geudernethorn 1346 FA
- Gouder(e)thorn(e) 1354 Pat 1428 FA
- Godderthorne 1653 ParlSurv 1664 HTax
- Godrenelonde 1321 SoDoNQ
- Gotherstone 1704 DCMSurv (5546)
- Liberty of Loders and Bothenhampton 1664 HTax
- Liberty of Loders and Bothenhampton or Baunton 1774 Hutch1 1863 Hutch3
Etymology
'Godrūn's thorn-tree', from OE þorn and a fem, pers.n. *Godrūn (recorded as Goderona TRE DB (So) and as Goderun 1086 DB (O), v. discussion in Ekwall, Early London Personal Names (1947) 41, Reaney, Studier i modern språkvetenskap , xviii (1953) 93). The site of the hundred meeting place is not now known, but the occurrence of a lost Godrenelonde 1321 SoDoNQ (VII 229) somewhere near to the present Matravers in Loders par. infra may suggest that it lay in the NE part of the present hundred, cf. also the later f.n. Gotherstone 1704DCMSurv (5546) in Allington par. infra which may actually represent the old hundred name.