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Winterborne Came

Major Settlement in the Parish of Winterborne Came

Historical Forms

  • Wintreborna 1129 CartAnt 1190 Ch 1332
  • Wittremburna 1174–82 France
  • Wynterbourn 1362 Pat
  • Wynterborne 1447 HarlRoll
  • Winterb(o)urn Caam 1280 Ass
  • Wynterbo(u)rn(e) Ca(a)m, Wynterburne Ca(a)m 1288 Ass 1340 NI 1373 Pat 1439 Midd
  • Wynterbo(u)rn(e) Cham 1291 Tax
  • Wynterbo(u)rn(e) Caan 1348 Pat
  • Wynterbo(u)rn(e) Came 1437 1489 Midd
  • Winterbo(u)rne Ca(y)ne, Wynterbo(u)rne Ca(y)ne 1552 DCMSurv 1564 DCMCt
  • Wynterbo(u)rne Came 1559 ib
  • Winterborne Came als. Winterborne Cayne 1685 Batten
  • Came Winterborne 1795 Boswell
  • Came 1575 Saxton 1586 Batten 1664 HTax 1811 OS
  • Cane als Come als. Wynterborne Billett 1596 AD

Etymology

One of the several places named from R. South Winterborne, a tributary of R. Frome, cf. Winterborne Belet infra ; Came from the possession of this manor by the abbey of St Stephen at Caen from the time of William I (v. Hutch3 2289 and Fägersten 162 note 2).This Winterborne is apparently not mentioned in DB (it is probably included with Bincombe par. supra , v. Eyton 121–2, cf. RCHMDo 3 383), but there were no less than thirty-five DB manors in Do called Wintreburne , some of them named from this river, some of them from the more north-easterly R. Winterborne which is a tributary of R. Stour; although it is probable that most of the places later called Winterborne are represented somewhere in this number, only nine of the thirty-five can be identified with certainty, in spite of the attempt to identify the rest by Eyton 115–124, cf. DBGeography 74 ff, VCHDo 3147 fn. 67, DBGazetteer 129.