Hinton (place name)
The place-name Hinton is of Old English origin, and is a common English village name, particularly in Southern England.
Village names often include a suffix, for example:
Note that there are two villages named Hinton Parva ( "Little Hinton" ):[a]
The place-name is closely related to other place-names that may derive from Old English hēah (or hēa, hēan) ..."high, tall":
- Higham – common across England.[b]
- Heaton – common in Northern England.[c]
- Hampton – common in Southern England.
- Hempton, Henton – found in Oxfordshire.[1]
Etymology
[edit]The place name Hinton is of Old English origin, and usually derives from either:
- Old English hiwan (or higna,[1] hina[2]).
- Old English hēah (or hēan).[1][2]
- "high, tall"
- "exalted, important"
The suffix is from Old English tūn:
- "an enclosed piece of ground".
- "a village or town".
Examples
[edit]List of examples
[edit]Sortable list of examples:
Place name | County | Map [Help 1] |
Latitude N – S |
Domesday entry | Etymology | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hinton on the Green | Worcestershire | [Map 1] | 240250 | Hinetune.[Web 1] St. Peter's Abbey |
higna.[2][1] ("monastery") |
In 981 Elfleda granted the manor to St. Peter's Abbey. |
Hinton-in-the-Hedges | Northamptonshire | [Map 2] | 237000 | Hintone.[Web 2] Geoffrey de Mandeville |
See below. | There is no known record of monastic settlement. |
Hinton Blewett | Somerset | [Map 3] | 156800 | Hantone.[Web 3] William of Eu |
hēan.[2][1] ("high") |
|
Hinton St Mary | Dorset | [Map 4] | 116212 | Haintone.[Web 4] Shaftesbury Abbey |
hēan.[2][1] ("high") |
The village occupies a hill overlooking the River Stour. |
Hinton St George | Somerset | [Map 5] | 112600 | Hantone.[Web 5] William of Eu |
hēan.[2][1] ("high") |
|
Hinton Martell | Dorset | [Map 6] | 106100 | Hinetone.[Web 6] Gilbert de Magminot |
higna.[2][1] ("monastery") |
Former monastery of Wimbourne Minster held land here. |
Hinton-in-the-Hedges
[edit]The name was previously recorded as Hynton in the edge (1549).[2] The toponym might be: "Village in the hill-side".
The etymology is uncertain. The etymologist Victor Watts proposed that the name derives from Old English hina,[2] which is normally used in the context of a monastery or other community.[e] However, there is no known record of a monastic settlement.
Another possibility is that the name derives from Old English hēah ("high). The name element edge is a local term for hill-side or escarpment – the village is on the rim of a plateau used by the Hinton-in-the-Hedges Airfield. The Holy Trinity Church is 128m above sea level, while the church at nearby Westbury is only 103m above sea level.
See also Wiktionary: Middle English egge
- The edge or rim of an object, plot of land, or physical feature...
Examples of place-names in the local area:
List of place-names in England
[edit]Sortable list of Hinton place-names:
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Citations
[edit]Web
[edit]- ^ *"Hinton [-on-the-Green]". Open Domesday. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ *"Hinton [-in-the-Hedges]". Open Domesday. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ *"Hinton [Blewitt]". Open Domesday. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ *"Hinton [St Mary]". Open Domesday. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ *"Hinton [St George]". Open Domesday. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ *"Hinton [Martell]". Open Domesday. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
Maps
[edit]- ^ "MAGiC MaP : Hinton on the Green". Natural England.
- ^ "MAGiC MaP : Hinton-in-the-Hedges". Natural England.
- ^ "MAGiC MaP : Hinton Blewett". Natural England.
- ^ "MAGiC MaP : Hinton St Mary". Natural England.
- ^ "MAGiC MaP : Hinton St George". Natural England.
- ^ "MAGiC MaP : Hinton Martell". Natural England.
- ^ MAGiC MaP – Help
- Use Table of Contents for Colour mapping.
- There may be intermittent problems with the magic.defra.gov.uk website, if so then try again another time.
Notes
[edit]- ^ See also Wiktionary: Latin parvus
- "small, little".
- ^ Reaney – English Place Names
..."But Higham is a valuable test-word. It is a common place-name, found at least six times in Kent, twice in Suffoik and Northamptonshire, and also in Bedfordshire, Derbyshire, Essex, Leicester, Northumberland and Yorkshire. In OE it was Hēah-hām a form found in 765 for Higham Upshire (Kent) ...[1] - ^ Reaney – English Place Names
..."In the north, the dative was Hēa-tūn, which survives as Heaton five times in the West Riding, four times in Lancashire and thrice in Northumberland ...[1] - ^ hîwan mp. (gen. hîwna, hî(g)na)
..."members of a family, household or religious house...[3] - ^ a b Watts – English Place-Names
HINTON "The Community's estate"
..."Such a manor was set aside for the support of the domestic servants of a religious or other household ...[2]
Sources
[edit]- Clark Hall, John Richard (1916). A Concise Anglo−Saxon Dictionary, Second Edition. The Macmillan Company.
- Reaney, P. H. (1969). The Origin of English Place Names. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- Watts, Victor (2007). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-16855-7.
External links
[edit]- Open Domesday
- Survey of English Place-Names University of Nottingham