Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• ?Wintreburne 1086 DB(ff.79b,82)

• Wintreburn 1232 Pat

• Winterborn' Clench 1242–3 Fees

• Clenchton' 1268 Ass

• Clengeston' 1316 FA

• Clencheston' 1327 SR 1332 SR 1340 NI 1510 MP

• Cleyncheston(e) 1349 Pat

• Clenston als. Clencheston 1574 Add

• Clenston alias Winterborne Clenston 1625 AddCh

• Higher Clenston & Lower Clenston 1774 Hutch1

• Wynterborn Cleyngestone 1273 Ipm

• Wynterborne Chencheston', Wynterburn' Chencheston' (sic) 1288 Ass

• Wynterburn Clencheston(e), Winterburn Clencheston(e), Winterbo(u)rn(e) Clencheston(e) 1303 FA 1510 PlR

• Winterbo(u)rn(e) Clencheton 1318 FF 1397 Pat

• Winterbo(u)rn(e) Cl(e)yncheston 1370 FF 1378 Fine

• Winterbo(u)rn(e) Cleynston 1514 PlR

• Winterbo(u)rn(e) Clenston 1535 VE

• Winterbo(u)rn(e) Cleynston 1544 PlR

• Wynturburne Clenchston 1428 FA

• Clenston Winterborne 1795 Boswell

• Clench 1232 Pat

Etymology

Named from R. Winterborne, cf. Winterborne Z. par. supra .The identification of the DB form(s) is that of Eyton 121–2 (also Fägersten 66), cf. VCHDo 3135, DBGazetteer 129, Winterborne Came 1260. The manorial affix is from Robert Clench 1232 Pat, v. tūn . For Higher Clenston & Lower Clenston , apparently to be identified with the two former manors of Winterborne Phelpston and Winterborne Nicholston in this par., v. infra , Taylor 56.