Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Meleburn(e) 1086 DB(f.83a) 1199 FF 1200 Cur 1217 1221 Cur 1225 1325 Pat

• Meleborne 1086 DB(f.84b)

• Melebourne 1305 Ipm

• Muleborn(e) 13 Weld1 1285 FA 1291 Tax 1327 SR 1332 SR

• Muleburn 1258 For 1320 Ch

• Mulebourne 1331 Pat

• Mulburn 1327 Pat

• Mulborn 1364 ib

• Moleburne 1268 Ass

• Mileborn 1268 Ass

• Milborne 1361 Cl

• Myleburn Munketon 1292 Ass

• Mullebourne Beeke 1326 TopCh

• Milbo(u)rnebek(e) 1436 IpmR 1454 Eton

• Milbo(u)rne Becke 1612 PlR

• Milburnbeke 1442 Pat

• Melburnebek(e) 1450 Fine 1451 Pat

• Melbornbeke 1467 ib

• Mylborne beke 1525 Pars

• Little Mellburne 1332 Ch

• Parva Melebourn 1340 TopCh

• Milborn(e) Stylam 1431 FA

• Milborn(e) Styleham 1476 DCMDeed

• Milborn(e) Styleant 1664 HTax

• Mylborne Styllam 1512 Pars

• Mel(l)eb(o)urneford(e) 1280, 1288 Ass

Etymology

'Mill stream', v. myln , burna , cf. Milborne St Andrew par. infra which takes its name from the same stream and where some of the forms without affix cited above may strictly belong. There was a mill at one of the two DB manors of Milborne S. in 1086 (VCHDo 3112).The affixes Munketon and Beek , Bek (e ) are from its possession by the abbey of Bec-Hellouin (Hutch3 1141), cf. Beklond in Steeple par. supra , v. munuc , tūn ; Little is in relation to Milborne St A., v. lȳtel ; Styl (e )(h )am may be from stigel 'a stile, a steep ascent' and hamm 'enclosure', cf. William de la Stig (h )ele 1268Ass , 1285 FA mentioned under Barrow hundred. Another name for this Milborne or for a part of it was Mel (l )eb (o )urneford (e )1280, 1288Ass , v. ford , but cf. Milborne Mamford in Milborne St A. par. infra .