Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Ramestom(') 1280 Ass 1376 Pat

• Remston' 1288 Ass

• Remyston 1376 Pat

• Remeston 1384 1535 VE

• Rempston 1435 AD 1454,1489,1498 Ct 1795 Boswell

• Rempston Ho. 1811 OS

• Rempstone (Hall) 1844 TA

• Rymeston(') 1288 Ass 1363 Pat

• Rymston 1362 ib

• Rympston' 1399 AddCh

Etymology

Probably 'farm where wild garlic grows', from hramsa, hramse and tūn , as suggested by Professor Löfvenberg who, for the forms in -e -, compares OE  Hremesleage for Romsley Sa (DEPN) and MLG  remese by the side of ramese . However, it may also be possible that the name means 'stone near the boundary', from rima , *rioma, *reoma 'rim, edge, boundary' and stān 'stone', perhaps in allusion to the Stone Circle (6″) which lies 200 yds from the present par. bdy ¼ mile SW from Rempstone Hall, v. Noggets in Studland par. infra and Rempstone Gate in Tyneham par. infra , cf. Remenham Brk 66–7. On the other hand, the preponderance of forms used as personal names among the early spellings may in fact suggest that Rempstone is a transferred name, as was supposed by Fägersten 120.