Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• æt Wreattinge 974 BCS1305

• æt Wrættincge c.975 ASWills

• æt Wrettinge 974 BCS1305 1273 FF

• Wrettinges 1200 Cur

• Wretinge c.1150 LibEl

• Wrettinga 12th ElyM

• Old Wrettingg(e) 1268 Ass 1309 Pat

• Wratinge c.1050 LibEl 12th KCD907 c.1050 InqEl 13th LibEl 1086 LibEl c.1150 Wardon 1170 c.1185

• Wratinga 1086 InqEl

• Wratyngg 1353–9 Pat

• Wratting(e) c.1050,1229(14th) ElyM

• Wratting(e) cum Oxecroft 1218 SR

• Wrattinga 1086 ICC

• Wrattincge 1086 InqEl

• Westwratting(e), Westwrattyng(e) 1272 Ass 1284 FF

• Wrattenge 1278 ElyC

• Wrattingg(e), Wrattyngg(e) 1299 QW 1363 Pat

• Westwrattinges 1315 FF

• Waratinge 1086 DB, InqEl

• Waratincg(e) 1086 InqEl

• Waratige 1170 LibEl

• Wartinga 12th LibEl

• Wartting 13th Jesus

• Westwarttynge 1347 Colexxii

• Wrautinge 1246 ElyM

• Wrotting(e), Wrottyng(e) 1199 ElyC 1247 FF 1450 Rad

• Westwrottyng(e) 13th ElyCh

• Wrottyngge 1329 Misc 1363 Pat

• Wroting(e) 1200 Cur 1212 RBE 1257 FF

• Westwrotyng(e) 1285 Ass 1405 Pat

• West Wratten 1493 Pembroke 1549 Add

• Worthing(e) 1272 Ass

Etymology

A singular name in ing based on OE  wrætt , 'cross-wort,' hence 'place where cross-wort grows,' v. PN in -ing 14–15 and cf. Wrat worth supra 80, Wrat Field infra 273, Wratten (PN Herts 11), Wretham (Nf), DBW (e )retham , and Wretton (Nf), Wretton 1198 FF.West because west of Great and Little Wratting (Sf), DBWratinga , one of which is called Estwrattyng ' in 1382 (Ass ). The three parishes must once have formed a whole.