Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Santune 1086 DB

• Shawynton 1260 Court 1395 CampbCh 1421 Orm2

• Shawynton in Hogh 1436,1440 ChRR

• Schavinton 1276 Ipm

• Shavinton 1287 Court 1882 Orm2

• Shavinton iuxta Barcford 1315 Plea

• Shavinton iuxta Wybenbury 1362 Orm2

• Shavinton iuxta le Hogh 1377 Plea

• Shavinton alias Sheynton 1496 ChRR

• Shavinton Hall 1845 ChetOSviii

• Schavyngton c.1298 Chol

• Shavington 1299 Plea

• Shavington iuxta Wybenbury 1362 Plea

• Shavington alias Shenton 1802 Sheaf

• Shavington Hall 1724 NotCestr

• Shavington Green Farm 1831 Bry

• Schayntonfyld 1398 Chol

• Shaynton 1400 ChRR

• Sheynton 1496 1515 Plea

• Shevington c.1415 Sheaf 1567 ChRR

• Chevington 1573 ib

• Sheavington 1575 Sheaf

• Shenton 1514 ChEx 1666 Orm2

• Shenton alias Shavington 1699 AddCh

• Shavington alias Shenton 1802 Sheaf

• Sheneton 1531 AD

• Shaventon-Woodnoth 1621 Orm2

• Shavington Woodnote, Shavington Woodneth 1621 ChCert

• Shavinton Woodnoth 1819 Orm1 1845 ChetOSviii 1882 Orm2

Etymology

'Farm called after Scēafa', from the OE  pers.n. Scēafa and -ingtūn, with feld , grēne 2 , hall , and myln . Cf. Shavington Sa (DEPN), where this pers.n. also occurs, and Shannock 164, Shauintonfeld 2192. The location is near Basford, Hough and Wybunbury 48, 64, supra , 80 infra . The manorial suffix Woodnoth is the surname of a family settled here from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, cf. William & Randle Wodenot 1298–9 Orm2 iii506, and it distinguishes this place from the other Shavington, ten miles away.The DB form has been ascribed to Sound, but it suits Shavington better, cf. Tait 155 n.133.