Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Derwinestone, Dervinestone 1086 DB

• Dervinestona Exon

• Deruunestuna 1100–22 Ch 1270

• Derewineston(') 1204 1221,1223 ib

• Derewinestun 1227 FF

• Derwenestun 1242 Ch

• Derwyneston 1244,1280 Ass

• Dirwinestun 1091–1106 MontC

• Dyrwinestun 1135–7 MontC

• Direwinestun 1135–66 MontC

• Dirrewyneston 1283 FF

• Dyrweneston 1338 ib

• Darwinestone 1166 RBE

• Durwinestona 1166 LN

• Durewneston 1212 Fees

• Dur(e)wineston, Dur(e)wyneston 1242–3 1277 FF 1280 1288 Ass 1399 Pat

• Durwyniston 1268 Ass

• Durnewyneston 1288 ib

• Durwynston 1316 FA

• Dur(e)wen(e)ston 1359,1379 Cl

• Durrewyneston 1402 DCMDeed

• Durweston 1412 FA

• Durweston Fitz Payn 1533 Weld1 1534 Hen1

• Durwyston 1431 FA

• Dureweston 1455 Cl

• Duryston 1464 Hen2

• Dorwyn(e)ston 1398 IpmR 1399 Cl

• Dorwinestan (sic) 1425 IpmR

• Dorweston 1428 FA 1483 Hen1 1583 AddCh

• Dowreston 1547,1548 Ct

Etymology

'Dēorwine's farm', from the OE  pers.n. Dēorwine and tūn.The affix is from the family of Fitz Payn which held this manor in the 15th or early 16th cent. (Hutch3 1265), cf. Okeford Fitzpaine and Wootton Fitzpaine pars. infra . Hutch1 1 89, followed by Hutch3 1 265, suggests that -wines - in the early forms of the name may contain some allusion to the two acres of vineyards (vinee ) recorded at one of the two manors of Durweston in 1086 DB, an amusing instance of antiquarian etymologizing (in Do, vineyards in DB occur only here and at Wootton Fitzpaine, both manors belonging to Aiulf the chamberlain, v. VCHDo 3100).