Worting
Worting, Basingstokecounty:
coords:
Hampshire
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otherwise: Wyrtingas, 960; Wortinges, 1086; Wertinges, 1195
WORTING
The form of 960 appears, in the light of the medieval developments, to be a good Old English form, but what it might mean is uncertain. Names of this form are standardly '-ingas' derivatives of personal names, and are usually, on that basis, called 'folk names'. No personal name of the right shape is known, however. We must guess that a hypothetical nickname 'Wyrta' based on 'wyrt'='herb, vegetable' existed. Ekwall points out that a name 'Worta' may exist in a 10th century boundary clause; but such a name could not be the base of the present place name because '-ingas' names cannot be conclusively proved ever to show 'i-' umlaut (cf Coates 1984b).
The '-s' forms persist into the early 14th century, though clear forms without it appear already in the 13th century.
Shown on an old map by Baker 1802
Period - 19th century, early
Worting 47.
47 miles from London; drawing of village; church with low spire.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, town - Chutely Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Ogilby 1675
- settlement, village - Hampshire
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
Listed in Domesday Book
- Cillei Hundred - Hantescire - St Peter's Abbey - Winchester parish: - Hampshire
Period - 11th century
SCI~ PETRI DE WINTONIA ... Ipsa abbatia ten. WORTINGES ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Cillei Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
