Gatewood
Gatewood, Denny Lodgeparish:
county:
coords:
Exbury and Lepe
Hampshire
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otherwise: Gatewod, 1235
GATEWOOD in Exbury
Hypothetical Old English 'Gatawudu'='goats' wood'. The attempt to identify it with the Domesday Book manor of 'Gatingeorde' is philologically unsatisfactory on the face of it, because that would yield hypothetical 'Gattingworth'. Morris correctly points out that the Domesday Book scribe wrote '-orde' in OTTERWOOD, undoubtedly a '-wood' name; but we would still have to assume that 'Gatinge' was a lost place name - Morris does and translates it 'goat place', on the model of supposed singular 'ing' names like 'Ferring' (Sussex) 'bull place' (Smith, English Place Name Elements I: 289). We are not told why the '-ing-' disappeared. Much is uncertain here.
Listed in Domesday Book
- Rodbrige Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
IN FORESTA NOVA et CIRCA EA~ ... GODRIC et Elnod habuer~ in GATINGEORDE II hid~ ... Modo e~ in foresta ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Rodbrige Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
