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Survey of English Place-Names

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Dunham On The Hill

Major Settlement in the Parish of Thornton le Moors

Historical Forms

  • Doneham 1086 DB
  • Donam 1265–91 Chest
  • Donham 1310 Cl 1559 Pat
  • Dunham 1283 Ipm
  • Dunham Hall 1724 NotCestr
  • Stony Dunham 1327 Pat
  • Stony Dunham iuxta Manlegh 1381 Plea
  • Stony Dunham alias Dunham on the Hill 1616 ChRR
  • Dunham de Hill' 1344 MinAcct
  • Dunham super Montem, Dunham on the Hill 1534 Plea
  • Donham on the Hill 1559 Pat
  • Dunham o' th' Hill 1860 White
  • Stanry Dunham 1348 Orm2
  • Stanredonham 1410 Sheaf
  • Stanre Dunham 1424 Plea
  • Stanredunham 1427,1452 Orm2 1428 Bark
  • Stanredinham 1438 ib
  • Stonrydon(e)ham 1421 Sheaf
  • Stanredinham 1438 Bark

Etymology

'Village on a hill', from dūn and hām , with hyll . The affix, from the outcropping rock of the hill on which the village stands, is stān , stānig 'a rock', 'stony' and the ME adj. stanry (cf. stannery NED (from 1440), stanners NED, and stǣner ), which also enters into le Stanryhurst 1390, 259 infra .