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.

Wythburn

Early-attested site in the Parish of St John's, Castlerigg and Wythburn

Historical Forms

  • Withebotine c.1280 Furness
  • Wythebocten 1303 Ipm
  • Wytheboten 1345 GDR
  • Whytheboden' 1387 Lowther
  • Wythbottom 1552 FF
  • Wythboddome 1566 PR(Crosth)
  • Withbone 1554 CWiv
  • Wyeborne 1564 PR(Crosth)
  • Wayborn, Weiborn 1569 ElizKes
  • Wybourn 1675 Ogilby
  • Wyburn 1775 CWxl
  • Wyetbourne 1564 PR(Crosth)
  • Withbourne, Wythbourne 1568 PR(Crosth)
  • Witheburne 1610 ib
  • Withburn or Wyburn 1703 NicVisit
  • Wyborn Chapel 1675 Ogilby

Etymology

'Withy valley,' v. wīðig , with variation between forms from ON  botn and OE  botm.