Ballinger
Early-attested site in the Parish of Great and Little Missenden
Historical Forms
- Baldinghore 1195 Cur(P)
- Beldyngore 1297 Ipm
- Baldynghore 1374 Cl
- Belynger 1504 Pat
- Bal(l)inger 1535 L.ii.370 1550 ib
Etymology
OE Bealding -ōra , 'Beald's bank,' v. ora .-ing is here used as in the ingtun- names. B (e )ald is found as a pers. name in OE (v. Cockayne, Leechdoms , ii. 298) and is a normal shortened form of such names as Bealdhūn , Bealdrēd . For the [indʒ] pronunciation cf. Fingest supra .