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.

Easton St

Early-attested site in the Parish of High Wycombe

Historical Forms

  • Estyntone 1444 Wyc
  • Estyntone 1528 ib

Etymology

This in the records is not the name of the street but the name of a part of Wycombe to which presumably the street led.It may be from OE  ēastan tune , 'east of the tun,' or ēast in tūne , 'east in the tun.'