Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Hantone 1086 DB

• Hanton 1259 Court H3 AddCh c.1310 1368 Chol 1665 Sheaf

• Hanton iuxta Eggerton 1420 Chol

• Hampton 1260 Court

• Hampton iuxta Eggerton 1422 Plea

• Hamptona 1283 Cl

• manerium de Hampton, Hampton Wood 1466 AD

• Hampton Heth 1476 Chol

• Hampton Grene 1523 Sheaf

• Hampton Heath 1582 Chol

• Hampton Post 1656 Orm2

• Hampton Cover, Hampton Green, Hampton Heath & Hampton Lower Hall 1831 Bry

• Hampton Meadow & Hampton Wood 1838 TA

• Hamton 1306,1348 Chol

• Heathes Yoardes 1636 Chol

• Little Heath 1722 ib

• Heath Field 1838 TA

Etymology

'High farm or enclosure', from hēah (wk.dat. hēah ) and tūn , with croft , grange , grēne 2 , hall , hǣð , hūs , post & wudu . Hampton Heath gives name to Heathes Yoardes 1636Chol , Little Heath 1722ib , Heath Field 1838TA , v. geard , lȳtel . Hampton Post (109– 507497) is 'so called of an old tree standing in the road of Chester way, from Whitchurch, and reckoned for a mark for Passengers travelling that way and another way, which there crosseth that and leadeth from Malpas into the other part of Cheshire', 1656 Orm2 ii590.