Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Chelmundestone 1086 DB

• Chelmundeston 1294 Ipm

• Chel(e)mundiston 13 AddCh 1272–90 ChFor

• Chel(e)mondeston 1295 Ipm 1351 Chamb

• Chelmondeston 1831 Bry

• Cholmundistun l13 AddCh

• Cholmundiston 1290 Chol

• Cholmundeston 1300 ChF 1427 ChRR

• Cholmundestone in foresta de Mondrem 1419 Plea

• Cholmondeston 1347 ChFor

• Cholmondeston Hall 1831 Bry

• Cholmonedeston 1453 Orm2

• Chomondeston 1482 Rich

• Cholmungeston 14 ChRR 1615

• Cholmeston' 1343 AddCh 1646 Sheaf

• Cholmuston', Cholmuston' in foresta de Mondrem 1417 ChRR

• Cholmston, Cholmston Green 1677 Sheaf

• Cholmunston 1417 Orm2

• Cholmonaston 1435 VR

• Cholmonston 1542 ChRR

• Chelmeston 1417 Eyre

• Chomston 1531 Chol

• Shelmonston 1547 MinAcct

• Chamaston 1550 MinAcct

• Chomaston c.1662 Surv

Etymology

'Cēolmund's farm', from the OE  pers.n, Cēolmund and tūn, as in Chelmondiston Sf (DEPN). The same pers.n., and perhaps the same person, figures in Cholmondeley 325infra , five miles distant, v. grēne , hall , cf. foll. and Mondrem 1 10.