Editing Dorking (section)

==Toponymy==
The origins and meaning of the name Dorking are uncertain.<ref name=Briggs>{{cite journal |first=Rob |last=Briggs |title=Dorking, Surrey |journal=Journal of the English Place-Name Society |volume=50 |year=2018 |pages=17–54 |url=https://www.academia.edu/42705068 |access-date=28 September 2020 |archive-date=2 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210102101918/https://www.academia.edu/42705068/Dorking_Surrey |url-status=live}}</ref> Early spellings include ''Dorchinges'' (1086),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.htm |title=Surrey Domesday Book |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070715015325/http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.htm |archive-date=15 July 2007}}</ref> ''Doreking'' (1138–47),<ref name=Briggs/> ''Dorkinges'' (1180),<ref name=Ekwall_Dictionary>{{harvnb|Ekwall|1940|p=142}}</ref> and ''Dorkingg'' (1219).<ref name=Briggs/> Both principal elements in the name are disputed. The first element may be from a personal name, ''Deorc'', or some variant, of either [[Brittonic languages|Brittonic]] or [[Old English]] origin. Alternatively it may derive from the Brittonic words ''Dorce'', a river name meaning "clear, bright stream", or ''duro'', meaning a "fort", "walled town" or "gated place".<ref name=Briggs/><ref name=Gover_1934_pp269-270>{{harvnb|Gover|Mawer|Stenton|1934|pp=269–270}}</ref> The second element, if originally plural ({{Non breaking hyphen}}''ingas''), might mean "(settlement belonging to the) followers of ...", but if singular ({{Non breaking hyphen}}''ing'') might mean "place", "stream", "wood" or "clump".<ref name=Briggs/>