Winstout
Early-attested site in the Parish of Crediton and Crediton Hamlets
Historical Forms
- Winstowte 1576 Wills
- Winstode 1754 Deed
- Wynstout 1330 SR
Etymology
The second element may be the same as that found in Brimpts supra 192, for Winstout is on a steep hill. The first element is obscure, unless it be the pers. name Wine .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Creedy Bridge
- Curtlake Cottage
- Dunscombe
- Gunstone
- Harford
- Hollacombe
- Jew's Hollacombe
- Keymelford
- Neopardy
- Posbury
- Spence Combe
- Trobridge Ho
- Uton
- Venny Tedburn