English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Lamerton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Lamerton

Historical Forms

  • lamburnan, of lamburnan (dat.) c.970 BCS1247
  • Lambretona 1086 DB
  • Lamberton(e) 1232 Ch 1238 Ass 1265 Exon 1284 FA
  • Lamerton' 1242 Fees756
  • Lammerton 1749 FF

Etymology

'tunby the Lumburn stream,' v. supra 9. The earliest reference is to a place, not to the river. Probably the river-name, like Meavy infra 229, applied then to the whole manor.