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.

Greston Hundred(lost)

Domesday Hundred in the County of Gloucestershire

Historical Forms

  • Gretestan(e), Gretestanes hd' 1086 DB
  • Gretestan 1221 Ass 1223–30 Pat 1251 Cl
  • Grettistan 1285 FA
  • Grestan (hundredo) 1170,1190,1192,1193 P 1255 Cl 1265 Misc
  • Gretstan (hundredum) 1187,1204 P 1226–8 Fees
  • Gretenehundredo 1195 P
  • Gretston(e) (hund') 1248 Ass 1535 VE
  • Greteston 1274,1276 RH
  • Greston' 1248 Ass 1274 RH 1316 FA 1568 Comm
  • Gristone, Grystone 1287 Ass
  • Greiston, Greyston 1349 Cl 1391 WinchLB
  • Great(t)e Grettiston, Grettiston, Gretteston 1547,1550 Pat

Parishes in this Domesday Hundred

Domesday Hundred