Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Wimundisham 1086 DB

• Wymundsham 1306 Orm2

• (Wymincham alias) Wymundysham 1581 ChRR

• Wymingham, Wimingham l12,1209 Tab

• Wymyngham 1695 ib

• Wymmincham(a) c.1270 JRC843 1541 AD

• Wymincham 1306 JRC857 1641 Sheaf

• Wymyncham alias Wymundysham 1581 ChRR

• Wymyncham alias Wyminaysh'm 1581 Orm2

• Wimmincham alias Wincham 1721 Chol

• Wemyncham 1331 Tab

• Wymyngcham 1353 Indict

• Wemecham e13 Tab

• Wimesham 1234 ib

• Wymmycham 1501 ib

• Wimigham 1228 Sheaf

• Wymundham 1281 Court

• Wyningham, Wynincham 1281 Court

• Wynyncham 1286 IpmR

• Wynnyncham 1540 AD

• Wyvincham c.1300 Chol 1568 Tab

• Wyncham 1435 Chol

• Wincham 1687 Sheaf

• Wynsham, Winsham 1651 Tab 1666 Orm2

• Wynmyncham c.1490 Sheaf

• Wyminaysh'm 1581 Orm2

• Wyminshaw near Northwich 1608 Sheaf

Etymology

'Wīgmund's homestead', from the OE  pers.n. Wīgmund (Feilitzen 413) and hām. The earlier form of the p.n. is compounded by the gen.sg. of the pers.n., uninflected in 1281 Court 36. The later form appears to contain -ing-, but the palatalization is analogous with the -inga or -ing 2 formation of the other Ch -ingham p.ns., v. Altrincham 7supra . The development of the form Wincham was noted by Leycester (1669), 'This township in Dooms-day book is written Wimundesham,…In old deeds it is written Wimingham, but now usually called and written Wincham, or Winsham', Orm2 i627.Wincham formerly included the hamlet of Twambrook 195infra , on the south side of Peover Eye, in Northwich Hundred.