Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Hame 1086 DB

• Hama Exon

• Hamma 1100–35 Pat 1496 Ch 1107 Ipm 1300 1263

• Hammes 1196 ChancR 1208 1244 Ass 1275 RH 1372 ChrP

• Hammes in Hammespreston' 1367 1372 ib

• Hames 1204 Cur

• Hamme 1204 1216 ClR 1258 FF 1262 Ipm 1268 Ass 1583 Glyn

• Hamnes 1288 Ass

• Hamne 1428 FA

• Hamme Preston(e) 1244 Ass 1283 FF 1285 Cecil 1291 Tax 1431 FA

• Hammespreston 1244 Ass 1372 ChrP

• Hamepreston 1299 Pap

• Hamne Preston 1304 Ipm

• Hamme et Prestone 1327 SR

• Hampme Preston 1361 Pat

• Hampreston(e) 1372 ChrP 1380 Cl

• Hamperston 1411 Fine 1664 HTax

• Ham Preston 1612 DCMDeed

• Hamme Chamberlayn 1291 Tax 1321 FF

• Hamme Chamberleyne 1428 FA

• Hammedaumarle 1298 FF

• Hamme Daumarle 1348,1349,1352 Wim

• Hamme Dammarl(e) 1352,1399 ib

• Hamme Aumarle 1381 ib

• Hamme Aumerle 1479 IpmR

• Preston 1575 Saxton

• atte Hamme 1332 SR

Etymology

'The enclosure(s) or river meadow(s)', v. hamm , cf. Walter atte Hamme , William atte Hamme 1332 SR, Hamworthy and Hammoon pars. both supra ; Hampreston is on R. Stour. The affix Preston is 'priest farm', from prēost and tūn , probably in allusion to lands here belonging to the College of Wimborne Minster, v. Hutch3 3433–4, VCHDo 2110. The other affixes are manorial. The largest of the four DB manors of Hame was held by Aiulfus Camerarius 'Aiulf the chamberlain', v. VCHDo 3100. (D )aumarle is from the family of Geoffrey de Albemarle mentioned in connection with Hamme in 1216 ClR, cf. William Daumarle 1333HarlCh , v. Longham infra .