Scampton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Scampton
Historical Forms
- Scant' 1086 DB
- Scantone, Scantune 1086 DB
- Scantuna c1115 LS
- Scanton 1231 FF
- Scamton 1115 Dugd 13 Kirkst 1174,c1191,1245(13) RRG 1246–7 FF 1263 Pat 1562
- Schamtona 1123,1164(p1276),l12(p1269) Bard
- Scamtona 1145 Bard p1269 Dane 1175,l12 HarlCh e13
- (apud) Scantonam 1146–56 Ais
- (in terra de) Schamtunie 1146–56 Ais
- Scamtunia 1147 Bard p1269
- Schamtuna eHy2 Dane
- Schamton' 1202 Ass
- Schamton John Ch 1252 Ass 1202
- (in campis de) Scamtuna c1155,c1160(13),Hy2(13) Kirkst lHy2,l12 Dane
- Scamtun' m12 HarlCh c1166 Ais
- Scamtun Hy2 Dane l12,e13 HarlCh 1212 Fees
- Scamton' 1185 Templar 1202 Ass 1204 FF c1250–60 RAii 1383 Peace
- Skamtona 1178(p1269),1226(p1269) Bard
- Skamton 1202 Ass
- Skamton' 1329 Ass 1373 Peace
- Scamt' 1185 Kirkst 13
- Scaunton' 1191 FF
- Scandton' 1202 Ass
- Scampton 1238,1269 RRG 1291 Tax 1581 Brasses
- Scampton' c1230–40 RAv 1242–3 Fees c1250 RAii 1254 ValNor c1275 DC c1278 HarlCh 1332 SR 1336 HarlCh 1369 Works 1373 Peace 1392 HarlCh
- Scamptona c1278 ib
- Scaimton' 1242–3 Fees
- Schampton 1252 Ch
- Skampton 1340 Ipm 1360 Orig 1372 C 1492 HarlCh 1576 Saxton 1610 Speed
- Skamton' 1383,1396 Peace
- Skinpton 1547 Pat
- Skanton 1547 Pat
Etymology
The second el. is OE tūn 'an enclosure, a village, a farmstead, an estate'. Ekwall (DEPN) took the first el. to be either ON skammr 'short' or the ON byname Skammi . Fellows Jensen (SSNEM 185) prefers derivation from ON skammr and suggests that it may have replaced a cognate OE *scamm. She adds: “It is difficult to see what the significance of the adj. 'short' can be in this p.n.” DLPN 106 interprets the name as 'the short village', taking it to be probably an Anglo- Scandinavian compound formed from ON skammr and OE tūn. This would seem to be the most reasonable etymology.
Forms and notes designated 1808 Ill are from A Topographical Account of the Parish of Scampton in the County of Lincoln , 1808, by the Rev. Cayley Illingworth A.M.