Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• (æt) Muleburne 843 ASCharters

• Muleborn 843 BCS739 m13 Vaux c.1447 FA 1285 SR 1332

• Muleburn(e) 1288 1293 Vaux c.1447 Pat 1311 FF 1334

• Mulborn(e) 1327 SR 1405 AddRoll

• Meleburn(e) 1086 DB(f.82b) m13 Vaux c.1447 FF 1254 Vaux 1261 Ass c.1447 1268 1288 ib

• Meleborn(e) m13 Vaux c.1447 Misc 1263

• Melleburn 1244 Ass 1254 FF

• Melbourne 1399 Cl

• Milleburn 1244 Ass

• Milleborne Hy3 Vaux c.1447

• Mileborn(e) 1259 c.1447 ib

• Milbo(u)rne 1412,1428 FA 1626 Wal 1641 Ilch

• Milburne 1641 ib

• Mylborne 1539 AOMB

• Mileburne Sancti Andree Ed1 HarlCh

• Muleburn(e) St Andrew 1294,1307 FF

• Mil(e)bo(u)rn(e) Seint Andrewe, Mylbo(u)rn(e) Seint Andrewe, Mylbo(u)rn(e) Seynt Andrewe 1391 1514 PlR

• (Sancti) Andree 1410 Ilch 1612 PlR

• — Sancti Andri 1451 Weld1

• — Seynt Andrews 1512 Pars

• — Sancte Andrie 1520 PlR

• — Saynt Androwe 1533 ib

• — Androston 1544 ib

• — S'ce Androwes 1578 HarlCh

• Melleb(o)urn Cher(le)ton 1280 Ass

• Muleburn Chircheton, Mileburn Chircheton 1288 ib

• Muleburne and Chercheton 1297 FF

• Milburnchyrcheton St Andrew 1318 ib

• Mylbo(u)rn(e) Church(e)ton, Milbo(u)rn(e) Church(e)ton 1417,1436 1438 AddCh 1441 Cl 1647 Bartelot

• Milbo(u)rn(e) Chirch(e)ston(e) 1469 IpmR 1481 1703 PlR

• Milbo(u)rn(e) Church(e)ston(e) als. Milborne Sanct' Andreæ 1484 IpmR 1795 Boswell

• Milborne Chyrcheston 1512 Pars

• Mylborne Abbottyston 1512 Pars

• Milborne Abbatston 1611 Hutch3

• Milborne Develish 1617 DuCo

• Milborne Diuelishe 1617 Add

Etymology

'Mill stream', v. myln , burna , cf. Milborne Stileham par. supra and the other Milbornes infra in this par. which are named from the same stream. There was a mill here in 1086 DB (VCHDo 397) and in 1501 Ipm, cf. Corn Mill infra . The affixes -St Andrew , -Androston and -Church (s )ton are from St Andrew's Church infra , v. cirice , tūn ; the name Milborne St Andrew seems originally to have been applied only to the S half of the present par. (RCHM 3 175, cf. Hutch3 2591, v. Deverel Fm infra ), and the southernmost part of this half seems originally to have comprised the manor of Milborne Church (s )ton (probably identical with Milborne Develish ) which belonged to Dewlish liberty (this settlement is perhaps represented by the medieval remains ¾ mile S of the village, v. RCHM 3178).Milborne Abbatston is thought by Hutch3 2 591 to have been 'probably the same' as Milborne St Andrew, v. abbod , tūn ; the latter was granted to Milton abbey in 934 (cf. also e15MiltRoll m.4r), and belonged to Cerne abbey in 16th cent (Hutch3 loc. cit .).