English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Upper Stondon

Major Settlement in the Parish of Upper Stondon

Historical Forms

  • Standone 1086 DB 1712 BM
  • Staundon 1199 FF 1276,1287 Ass 1291
  • Stondon(e) 1247 Ass 1252 FF 1276,1297 Ass 1302,1316,1346 FA 1388 Cl 1390–2 CS 1428 FA
  • Great Stondon 1320 Ipm
  • Overstondon 1504 Ipm

Etymology

'Stony-hill' v. stan , dun . Over is the regular earlier epithet for places now called Upper .

Places in the same Parish

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