Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Stanei 1086 DB

• Staneia 1096–1101(1150),1150 Chest

• Staney 1163–90 1709 Blun

• Stany(e), Stanie 1547 MinAcct 1554 1660 Sheaf

• Stanney 1135–54 Orm2 17

• Stanneya c.1190 Bun e13 Tab

• Stanneye 1353 BPR

• Stanney 1351 Chamb 1459 ChRR 1594 Eyre 1499 Plea 1544 AD 1587 ChRR 1594 Sheaf 1600 NotCestr 1724

• Stanny 1554 Whall

• Stanay 1260 Sheaf 1347 1361 BPR 1365 JRC 1384 ChRR 1423 Cre 1459 Orm2

• Stanay in Wirhale 1378 Plea

• Stanaye 1304 Chamb

• Stannay 1655 Sheaf

• Staneya Inferior 1278 Chest, Whall

• inferior villa de Staneye 1278 Whall

• maior (villa de) Staneya 1279 Whall

• magna Staney 1450 ChRR

• Magna Stanney 1499 Eyre

• Stany Magna, Magna Stany 1537 Dugd 1554 Whall

• Stanney Magna 1544 Plea

• Greate Stanney 1577 Sheaf

• Great Stanney 1600 ib

• Stayny 1554 Whall

• Great Stanley 1560 Sheaf

• Stanhey 1595 AD

• Stanwaye 1597 MidCh

• Stanway 1727 Sheaf

• Stanne Magna 1663 Sheaf

• Great Stane 1693 Sheaf

Etymology

'Rock island', v. stān , ēg . The district of Great Stanney and Little Stanney comprised the marshland south of the rocky promontory of Stanlow 185infra , between R. Gowy and the Mersey estuary. The stān-ēg would be Stanlow, which would, originally, have been part of Great Stanney. The two parts of Stanney are distinguished as Little-, or Higher- (180supra ) and Great-, or Lower-, v. grēat , maior , magna , inferior .