Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Doneham 1086 DB

• Donam 1265–91 Chest

• Donham 1310 Cl 1559 Pat

• Dunham 1283 Ipm

• Dunham Hall 1724 NotCestr

• Stony Dunham 1327 Pat

• Stony Dunham iuxta Manlegh 1381 Plea

• Stony Dunham alias Dunham on the Hill 1616 ChRR

• Dunham de Hill' 1344 MinAcct

• Dunham super Montem, Dunham on the Hill 1534 Plea

• Donham on the Hill 1559 Pat

• Dunham o' th' Hill 1860 White

• Stanry Dunham 1348 Orm2

• Stanredonham 1410 Sheaf

• Stanre Dunham 1424 Plea

• Stanredunham 1427,1452 Orm2 1428 Bark

• Stanredinham 1438 ib

• Stonrydon(e)ham 1421 Sheaf

• Stanredinham 1438 Bark

Etymology

'Village on a hill', from dūn and hām , with hyll . The affix, from the outcropping rock of the hill on which the village stands, is stān , stānig 'a rock', 'stony' and the ME adj. stanry (cf. stannery NED (from 1440), stanners NED, and stǣner ), which also enters into le Stanryhurst 1390, 259 infra .