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.

Sherington

Major Settlement in the Parish of Sherington

Historical Forms

  • (a) Serintone 1086 DB
  • S(c)herintone 1185 RotDom 1227 Ass
  • S(c)heryngton 1355,1474 Pat 1492 Ipm 1509 LP 1533 LDD
  • (b) Syrenton 1151–4 Fr
  • Schirintone 1179,1189 P 1237 Fees 1247,1262 Ass
  • Sc(h)iriton Ri P
  • Syrintone 1227 Ass 1230 WellsR
  • Shiringtona 1232 Bract 1241,1262 Ass 1303 Cl 1361,1376 IpmR 1378 Pat
  • Chirintona 1232 Bract
  • Syrington 1241 Ass
  • Syrincton 1242 Fees896
  • Cyrington 1262 Ass
  • Shirenton 1262 Ass
  • Shirrington 1312 Orig
  • (c) Srinton 1151–4 Fr 1250 Misc
  • Srynton 1295 Ipm
  • S(c)hrington(e) 1278 Ipm 1316 FA 1320 Fine 1346 FA 1360 Fine 1374 Cl 1403 IpmR
  • Scringtone 1302 FA
  • Shryngton 1367,1374,1380 Pat
  • Churton or Cherryngton 1524 LP

Etymology

OE  Scīringtūn , 'Scira's farm,' v. ingtun . There has been a tendency from early times to lower the i (which must already have been shortened in the trisyllable) to e , cf. Sheringham (Nf). The forms under (c ) can only be explained as due to a tendency to shift the stress from the first to the second syllable.v. Introd. xxvi.

Places in the same Parish

None