List of places in the Godalming hundred

Places in the ancient Godalming hundred of Surrey (with their probable meanings) include:


 * Alfold ("old enclosure")
 * Amberley (Imberlēah meaning "riverside clearing")
 * Artington (from heorotingdon meaning "hill of the people of the sacred hart"
 * Bagmoor (possibly from the personal name Bacca + Moor, or perhaps meaning "badger's moor")
 * Binscombe (from possible Brythonic personal name Buden + Combe, meaning "Buden's Valley")
 * Brook (Brōc meaning "fast flowing stream" in Old English; cognate with Dutch broek, German bruch)
 * Busbridge (Bus + bridge, perhaps referring to the old bridge over the lake)
 * Catteshall (Gattes Hill meaning "gate or route to hill")
 * Chiddingfold (Chadingesfold meaning "enclosure of the people of the hollow")
 * Chinthurst (Chint + hurst, the second word means "wooded hill")
 * Compton (Probably a corruption of comb + tun meaning "valley estate")
 * Cosford (probably from "Cusa's Ford" but possibly from Welsh cors meaning bog, fen; hence "bog by the ford")
 * Culmer (Col mere meaning "cool or deep lake")
 * Cut Mill ("mill in the valley")
 * Dunsfold ("hilltop enclosure")
 * Eashing ("people of Essa")
 * Elstead (Ellested meaning "Place where the Elder trees grow")
 * Emley or Bowlhead Green (Eme lēah meaning "Ema's Clearing")
 * Enton (unknown, derived from En + tun, possibly "estate end")
 * Farncombe (Fernecome meaning "marshy valley")
 * Feathercombe (possibly meaning "wooded valley")
 * Frillinghurst ("the wooded hill of the people of the forest edge")
 * Godalming (Godhelm Ingas meaning "the people of Godhelm")
 * Grafham (Grafhæm meaning "farm by the grove")
 * Hambledon (Hameledūn probably meaning "flat-topped hill")
 * Hankley (Hank + lēah, meaning either "Hank's clearing" or possibly "dry clearing")
 * Hascombe (Hægtessecombe, meaning "valley of the witch")
 * Hurling (Hurlingas, meaning "Hurl's people"
 * Hurtmore (heorotmera, the second part means "hart (deer) lake")
 * Hurthill ("deer hill")
 * Hydestyle (unknown)
 * Hydon ("high hill")
 * Lascombe (the second part means "valley")
 * Littleton ("small estate")
 * Losley (Loselēah, the second part means "clearing")
 * Loxhill
 * Lydling ("little people")
 * Milford ("the ford by the mill")
 * Mousehill, Surrey (possibly literal, probably Middle English)
 * Munstead (possibly "Mun's place")
 * Northbourne ("north stream")
 * Nurscombe (Notescombe meaning "Note's valley"
 * Ockford (Hocford, "ford of the River Ock")
 * Ockley (Occalēah, "Occa's clearing")
 * Peper Harrow (Pīpereheōrge, "heathen temple of the Pipers")
 * Polsted (the second part means "place")
 * Prior's Field ("pasture of the Prior"
 * Puttenham (originally Reddesolhæm, the second part means "farm", the first part may be a given name.)
 * Rodborough, see also Rodborough School (unknown, but the second part refers to a burh which is a "fortified camp")
 * Rodsall (derived from the same name as Puttanham, above, Reddesolhæm)
 * Sandhills (possibly literal, probably Middle English)
 * Shackleford (Sakelesford, possibly derived from scacol meaning "tongue of land crossing")
 * Shackstead (Scuccastead, "evil spirit place")
 * Tadmoor (unknown, but some high ground)
 * Tilford "fertile river crossing"
 * Tiltham "fertile farm"
 * Thursley (Þunreslēah, "sacred clearing of Thunor"
 * Thorncombe Street "wild valley"
 * Truxford (unknown but a river crossing)
 * Tuesley (Tīweslēah, "sacred clearing of Tyr"
 * Unsted (see Munstead)
 * Winkford (unknown but a river crossing, perhaps with a given name)
 * Winkworth (the first part means "corner" or "nook", the second part means a "walled enclosure")
 * Witley (Witlēah, "white clearing" perhaps due to Silver Birch trees)
 * Wormley (Wormlēah, "clearing of snakes", perhaps due to many adders in the vicinity)
 * Yagden Hill (unknown, but the second part "den" is derived from dun meaning "hill")


 * Mills, Anthony David, A Dictionary of British Place-Names (2003), Oxford University Press

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