Glympton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Glympton
Historical Forms
- Glimtuna 1050–2 KCD950 13th Eynsh 1664
- Glintone 1086 DB 1689 Glymp
- Clinton' 1199 P 1314 Ch
- Clinctona 1231 Bract
- Clantona 1235–6 Bract
- Glimpton 1252 Cl
- Climpton 1268 Ass
- Ghimpton 1284–5 FA
- Clymton 1362 Ipm
Etymology
'tūnon the river Glyme' (v. supra 7). For the forms Glinton (e ) and Clinton (e ) cf. the quotation from Dugdale (1656) in PN Wa 173: “Clinton (now vulgarly called Glinton ) in Oxfordshire.”