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.

Conington

Major Settlement in the Parish of Conington

Historical Forms

  • æt Cunningtune c.975 ASWills
  • Cunington, Cunyngton 1214 Cur 1260 Ass 1291 FF 1348 Works
  • Cunnyngton 1576 Saxton
  • (be) Cunigtunes (gemæra) 1012 Proc.Soc.Antiq.(N.S.)iii,49 12th
  • Cunigtona 1254 Val
  • Cunitone 1086 DB
  • Cuniton 1199–1212 Cur
  • Cunitun 1218 SR
  • Contone 1086 DB 1086 Ipm 1337
  • Cuninton 1199,1202 FF 1214 Cur
  • Kunintun 1199 FF
  • Cunninton' 1213 Cur
  • Coniton(e), Conyton(e) 1200 Cur 1502 Ipm
  • Con(n)inton(e), Con(n)ynton(e) 1242 Fees 1316 FA
  • Conigton(e), Conygton(e) 1254 Val 1336 SR
  • Conyngton(e), Conington(e) 1265 Misc 1570 SR
  • Conington(e) iuxta Fennedrayton 1285 Ass
  • Conington(e) juxta Ellesworth 1374 FF
  • Connyngton 1553 Pat

Etymology

Like Conington (PN BedsHu 182), this is probably a Scandinavianising of OE  Cyning -tūn , 'King or royal farm,' under the influence of ON  konungr , v. tūn .

Places in the same Parish

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