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.

Kiftsgate Hundred (Lower Division)

Hundred in the County of Gloucestershire

Historical Forms

  • manerium de Winchecumb' cum hundredis de Holeford, Grestan' et Kiftesgate 1255 Cl
  • 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
  • Holiforde, Holeford(es) hd' 1086 DB
  • Holevord 12 WinchLB
  • Holef(f)ord (hdr') 1169,1191 P 1221,1248 Ass 1223,1230 Pat 1251 Cl 1274 RH 1391 Ipm
  • Oleford 1220 Fees
  • Holford(e) 1316 FA 1327 SR 1390 Ch 1568 Comm
  • Burgvm de Wincelcvmbe cum toto Hund' ejusdem uillæ 1086 DB
  • hundredo de Wynchecumba, Winchecumba 12–13 WinchLB
  • hundredum ville de Winchecumbe 1202 ib
  • hundred' de Wynchecumbe, Winchecumbe 1227,1233 Cl 1251,1402 Pat
  • hundr' de Winchelcumb 1535 VE