The village of Sawtry had three manors, each with a church, probably wooden, and a manor house listed when the Domesday Book was written in 1086, which meant that the village settlement was already established by that time. Below is a list of the various names for the village, starting with the Anglo Saxon and early Norman names, before it finally became the Sawtry we know today. 

 

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Saltreim (meaning Salters Stream), Saltrede, Saltreia : Anglo Saxon - early Norman from 1066

Saltreria, Saltre, Saltereye : 1146 - 1242 early medieval 12th Century - 13th Century

Saltreda : Medieval, 13th Century

Sautreia, Sawtereye :  Medieval, 13th Century

Sautreia, Sautre(ye) : Medieval, 13th Century

Sautre Monacorum :  13th to early 14th Century

Magna Salterya Monacorum : 14th Century

Majorum Sautre : 14th Century

Saltreya Le Moynne, Saltrey Le Moyne : 14th Century

Sautrey Beumeys, Sautre Beaumes : 14th Century

Saltretha : 14th to early 15th Century

Sautre : 15th Century

Sauetre : 15th Century

Sautre Moynes and Ivet : 16th Century -  Tudor (1568)

Sautreye Beaumes : 16th Century Tudor

Sawter : 16th Century Tudor

Sawtree : 17th Century

Sawtry Jewel : 17th - 18th Century

Sawtrey : 18th Century

Sawtry Bellers : 18th Century

Sawtry Jewitt and Moynes : 19th to early 20th Century

Sawtry: 20th Century to present

 

Information taken from "Place Names in Beds and Hunts" by Mawer and Stenton in Huntingdon Archives