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.

Trumpington

Major Settlement in the Parish of Trumpington

Historical Forms

  • Trumpintune c.1050 KCD907 13th LibEl 1170 InqEl 1086
  • Trumpintona 1086 ICC
  • Trumpintone 1086 DB, InqEl
  • Trumpyntone 1203 Cur 1470 CRent
  • Trumpyntone in Kantebrigg 1366 Pat
  • Trunpintune c.1050 LibEl 12th
  • Trumpitone c.1060 ElyM 14th
  • Trumpituna 1086 InqEl
  • Trumpiton(e), Trumpyton(e) 1202 Cur 1434 Pat
  • Troumpyton 1309 Ch
  • Trompintona, Trompintone 1086 ICC 1086 InqEl
  • Trompinton(e) 1272 Ass 1551 Pat
  • Tromphintonam 1107–28 Ch 1329
  • Tronpinton 1212 RBE
  • Trumpington(e), Trumpyngton(e) 1198 FF
  • Trumpingtun 1218 SR
  • Trumpyngdon 1490 Ipm
  • Trumpetun(e) 1218 SR 1252 FF
  • Trumpetona, Trumpetone 1264 Cl 1421 et freq
  • Trumppeton 1271 FF 1304 Ipm
  • Trumpton 1290,1314 Cl 1298 Ass 1362 Pat
  • Tromp(y)ton, Trompiton 1261 Cl 1262 AD 1285,1298 Ass 1313 Ipm
  • Trompeton(e) 1272 Ass 1326 FF
  • Trompington, Trompyngton 1285 Ass 1489 Pat 1539–40 MinAcct

Etymology

'Trump 's farm,' v. ingtūn . This personal name is found independently in a signature attached to the Thorney foundation charter as found in the Thorney Cartulary (ex inf. Dr Schram). In BCS 1297 it is printed from a late Cottonian charter, with the impossible signature Trumþ . It is doubtless short for such a name as Trumbeorht or, as suggested by Ekwall (DEPN), it may be derived from Goth  trimpan , Sw  trumpen , 'surly,' trumpe , 'surly person,' cf. Nicholas Trumpe (of Great Abington) 1279 RH, and, for the derivative Trympa , Trimpley (PN Wo 252).

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site