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.

Linton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Linton

Historical Forms

  • (æt) twam Lintunum 11th KCD725 15th
  • duo Lintunum, (in) Lintune 1008 LibEl 12th
  • Lintona 1008 ElyM 14th ICC 1086
  • Lintone, alia Lintone 1086 DB
  • Linton Magna, Linton Parua 1218 SR
  • Lyntone, Lyntone juxta Waldene c.1250 RegRoff
  • Lytton 1355 FF
  • Lynton the more 1493 PCC
  • Lymton 1310 Cl
  • Lenton t.Eliz ChancP

Etymology

'Flax-farm,' v. līn , tūn . twām , 'two' (dat. pl.), i.e. Great and Little (infra 111). Waldene is Saffron Walden (PN Ess 537).