Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Wenfrot 1086 DB

• Winfrod(e) 1227,1260 Ch 1272 Ipm

• Winford 1287 Drew

• Wynfrod(') 1232,1243 Cl 1268 Ass

• Wynfred 1327 SR

• Wynford 1440,1451 Pat

• Winifrod' 1233 Cl

• Womfrod' 1234 ib

• Wimfrod 1280,1288 Ass

• Wynifred 1297 Pat

• Wyndfred 1309 Ipm

• Wymfred 1332 SR

• uilla de Winfrot Gileberti de Aquila 1204 P

• Wynford Aquile 1275 RH

• Wymfrod Aquila 1280 Ass

• West Wynfrod', Wynford' 1268 Ass

• Wynfrod' Egle, Windfrod Egle 1288 Ass

• Wymfrodegle 1291 Tax

• Wynfrid Egle 1303 FA

• Wyn(d)fredegle, Wyn(d)fred Egle 1309 1310 1329 FF 1428 FA

• Winfred egle 1344 Cerne 14

• Wynfryd(e) Egle, Wynfrydegle 1351 Ipm 1472 Pat 1473 Cl

• Wyn(e)frede Egle 1357 Pat 1404,1409 Cl

• Winford Egle 1412 FA

• Winford Eagle 1664 HTax

• Wynford Egle 1431 FA

• Wenfride Egle 1472 Pat

• Wynefrythe Egle 1311 Pat

• Wynfreth Egle 1484 Cl

• Wyndeffred Egle Hy8 Winch

Etymology

A Celtic name, originally applied to the stream on which Wynford stands, from PrWelsh  *wïnn3 'white, bright' and PrWelsh  *frud 'stream', and identical in origin with Winford So (DEPN) and the first part of Winfrith Newburgh 1174–5, v. Ekwall RN 462–3, Jackson 555–6, CVEP 295. The affix Eagle is manorial: the manor was a member of the Honour or Barony of Aquila or Eagle (centred on Pevensey Sx) for which v. Hutch3 2701, and Gilbert de Aquila is recorded as possessing it in 1204 P and 1227 Ch, cf. also the inscription (probably e12) on a tympanum in Wynford Eagle church: Mahald Del Egele (RCHM 1 269b reads: Mahad Delegele ). The surname is from the castle/town of L'Aigle in Normandy. The alternative affix West recorded in just one 13th-cent. source is no doubt in relation to Winfrith Newburgh.