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.

Compton Beauchamp

Major Settlement in the Parish of Compton Beauchamp

Historical Forms

  • (æt) Cumtune 955 BCS908 c.1240
  • Cumton' Beucamp 1235–6 Fees
  • Contone 1086 DB
  • Compton' c.1120–30(c.1425)(p),c.1300(c.1425) Frid 1327 SR
  • Compton alias Cumton by the Whytehorse 1322 Ipm
  • Compton by Whitehors 1348–9 InqMisc
  • Compton Bechaump 1370 Ipm
  • Compton Beaucheme 1535 VE
  • Compton Beachampe 1548–9 RentSur
  • Cumpton' 1205 Cur
  • Cumpton' Walteri de Bello campo 1220 Fees
  • Cumpton', Cumptun' 1242–3 ib
  • Cumpton near le Witehors 1273 Ipm
  • Campton Beauchamp 1370 Fine
  • Conyngtone 1428 FA

Etymology

'Valley-farm', v cumb , tūn . Compton Ho lies in a recess in the escarpment of the Downs. The suffixes distinguish this place from Compton near Ilsley (498), about 15 miles E. Walter de Beauchamp was the holder 1220 Fees.