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Godstone is a village and civil parish in the county of Surrey, England. It is centred east of Reigate at the junction of the A22 and A25 roads, and near the M25 motorway on the escarpment of the North Downs to the north. In its far south it has a railway station, with its own small community South Godstone separated by agricultural land. Two other communities exist tied to Godstone, The Enterdent and Blindley Heath, which includes a grassland nature reserve. The Greensand Way and the North Downs Way pass through areas of Godstone. Godstone has a smaller population than Oxted east which is the administrative centre of its mid-unit of local government, Tandridge District. Westerham, Kent is east. The county town of Guildford is due west and London is centred north. ==History== The village lay within the Anglo-Saxon administrative division of Tandridge hundred. It is built along a stretch of the London to Brighton Way Roman road, which comes through the high Caterham Gap and continues southward along Tilburstow Hill Road. Godstone initially had a different name, Walkingstead, meaning 'Wolcen's place', from the Old English personal name Wolcen (related to modern English "welkin" meaning cloud") and ''stede'' "place, homestead", related to modern English stead. A record of the name from 932 as ''Wuulicinsted'' proves this. Another record, undated, shows the name as ''Wolinstede'', suggesting the same etymology. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was ''Wachelstede''.〔(Norman Marshal )〕 The name of the village was recorded in 1248 as ''Godeston'', suggesting an etymology of the Old English personal name Goda and tun "farm, village", here in the sense "village" rather than "estate" considering the village size. Thus the suggested etymology is "Goda's farm". Goda was the daughter of Aethelred The Unready. She died in 1055 but the Domesday book of 1086 records the parish as being held by her husband, Count Eustace II of Boulogne. Earlier records have the name listed as ''Cudeston'' (1153) and ''Codstune'' (1173) suggesting "farmstead of a man called Cōd" (pronounced as "code", not "cod"), as with the Cotswolds, meaning "high-forest land of a man called Cōd". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Godstone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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