Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Winterborna 1068–84 France

• Winterburne 1086 DB(3×,ff.79,83b)

• Winterborna Exon (2 ×)

• Winterburn' canonicorum de Constantiis 1210,1211 P

• Winterburn Stikellane 1203 France

• Winterburn(e) Stikelan(e), Wynterburn(e) Stikelan(e), Wyntreburn(e) Stikelan(e), Wyntrebo(u)rn(e) Stikelan(e), Wyntrebo(u)rn(e) Stykelan(e) 1223 Osm 1225 ClR 1244 Cl 1280 Ass 1385 Pat

• Wyntrebo(u)rn(e) Stiklane 1280 Ass

• Wyntrebo(u)rn(e) Stikelone, Wyntrebo(u)rn(e) Stykelone 1338,1340 Pat

• Wynterborn Stokelane 1428 FA

• Winterburne Stikeland, Wynterburne Stikeland, Wynterborn Stikeland 1205 ClR 1316 FA 1379 Pat

• Wynterborn Sticland 1310 Inqaqd

• Wynterborn Stikelland 1311 Pat

• Wynterborn Stykelond 1338 ib

• Stickland Winterborne 1795 Boswell

• Stikelane, Stykelane 1268 Ass 1321 Winch 1327 SR 1548 Ct

• Stichelane 1268 Ass

• Stickland 1575 Saxton

Etymology

Named from R. Winterborne, v. RNs.infra ; for the identification of the DB forms, v. Eyton 131–2, VCHDo 383, 106, DBGazetteer 129. The largest of the DB manors was held in 1086 by the canons of Coutances (Manche), v. VCHDo 336, 83. The affix -Stickland means 'steep lane', from sticol and lane , cf. Do dial. stickle 'steep' (Barnes 106, EDD) and the OE bdy point on þa sticelen lane 1019 (15) ShaftR (S 955(1)) in Cheselbourne par. infra (in fact identified by Ekwall DEPN with this place, but Cheselbourne is some 6 miles SW of Winterborne Stickland). Lanes climb the hills to E and W out of the deep valley of R. Winterborne in which the village lies.There has been some alternation or confusion of the second el. with land 'land'.