Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Curndun(am) 1145 1145 SherC 12

• Corundon(') 1163 1268 Ass

• Curendon' 1244 ib

• Quirindon' 1220 Cur

• Querendun' 1244 Ass

• Querendon(e) Hy3 AddCh 1244 Ass 1276 Banco 1285 FA 1288 Ass

• Querendon(e) juxta Halgestok 1311 Drew

• Querindon 1259 AddCh

• Queringdon 1276 Banco

• Queryndon in manerio de Halgestoke 1306 AddCh

• Kerendon' 1244 Ass

• Querndun' 1253 AddCh

• Querundon 1379 ib

• Corendon' 1288 Ass

• Coryndon' 1313 Drew 1392 Pat 1393 Hutch3 15 AddCh

• Corindon 1322 Ext 1345 Pat

• Coryngdon 1306 BMI,1374 1379,1385 AddCh

• Coringdon 1684 ERO 1774 Hutch1

• house and garden and grounds called Coringdon Longcroft 1684 ERO

• Cordington (sic) 1795 Boswell

Etymology

'Mill hill', or 'hill where millstones were obtained', from cweorn,

cwyrn and dūn , cf. Currendon 157. For the development of the svarabhakti vowel between r and n , cf. Farrington in Iwerne C. par. 3 38.