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.

Gumstool Bank

Other OS name in the Parish of Cirencester

Historical Forms

  • Groomstolebridge 1779 Rudder

Etymology

, Groomstolebridge 1779 Rudder 344 , e.ModE  gum-stoole ' cucking-stool ' , with the substitution of ME  grome ' groom ' for gome ' man ' .