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Survey of English Place-Names

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Hampston Well

Other OS name in the Parish of Burton

Historical Forms

  • Hampson's Well 1950 Sheaf345,v.

Etymology

( 109–309743 ) , 1831 Bry , Hampson 's Well 1950 Sheaf3 45, v. wella ' a well, a spring ' . Hampston may be an old p.n. in tūn or stān , cf. Dunstan, Fiddleston supra , but here the origin might also be hump-stone , ' humped-stone ' , v. hump , stān , or hemp-stone ' a stone on which hemp is beaten ' , v. hænep , hemp .