Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Warm(e)welle, Warmemoille 1086 DB

• Warmewella Exon

• Werm(e)well(e) 1152–58 MontC 1205 FF 1209 P 1210 1214,1215 1217 FF 1236 1244 Ass 1353 Midd 1518 Ampthill

• Werm(e)wull(e) c.1165 MontC 1242–3 Fees

• Werm(e)wel 1244 Ass

• Werm(e)vill 1271 Ch

• Werm(e)wl 1291 Tax

• Werm(e)wolle 1293 Ilch e14 Wim 1303 FA m14 Hutch3

• Warm(e)well(e) 1166 RBE 1203,1204(p),1210,1212,1214 Cur 1244 Ass

• Warm(e)wule 1201 FF

• Warm(e)wulla Hy1 AddCh

• Warm(e)woll 1311 Weld1 1346 FA

• Warm(e)wull 1340 NI

• Warm(e)wel 1389 Weld1

• Warm(e)wyll 1405 ib

• Warm(e)will 1437 FF

• Weremew(e)ll(e) 13 Weld1 1244 Ass

• Wermell 1244 Ass 1288 ib

• Wearmwlle Hy3 Cerne 14

• Warwell 1412 Weld1

• Warmell 1440,1471 Weld1 1510 Ampthill 1682 Weld1

• Warmull 1575 Saxton

• Wermeswyll 1498 Ampthill

Etymology

'Warm spring', v. wearm (wk. obl. wearman ), well(a) (WSax  will(a), wyll(a)); a spring is marked (6″) ¼ mile N of the village.