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.

Wrinkleberry

Early-attested site in the Parish of Clovelly

Historical Forms

  • Wynkenebiry 1333 SR
  • Winglebury 1765 D

Etymology

The forms are late and no certainty is possible, but we may have a compound of OE  wincel and burh. Hence 'burh in the angle of land.' The hamlet stands at the head of a small deep-cut valley.