Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• staninctona 1091×2 Reg 12th

• Stanyntone 1235×6 Ass

• Steinintune c.1250 FPD

• Stantona c.1200 Spec

• Steinton 1200 FF

• Steinton' 1239 ib

• Staynton 1284 Finc 1296(p),1366(p) Halm 1304 Bek 1337 Ct 1510 IPM

• stainton 1560 Wills

• Stayntone 1563 ib

• Stenton 1768 CC

• Stanton' in Strata 1311 RPD

• Staynton' in Strata 1312,1314 RPD 1438×9 Vis 1479 Hex 1483 Spec 1588 Wills

• Stainton in Strata 1313 RPD

• Staynton in the Strete 1447 IPM

• Staynton in le Strete 1461 ib

• Stayntone in the Streate 1563 Wills

• Stanton in ye streat 1567 EP/Di

• Stauntonin-the-Streate 1588 Wills

• Magna Staynton 1366 Halm

• Stainton Magna in le Street 1614 IPM

• Magna Stanton 1664 Ct

• Great Stainton 1592 Wills 1823 Eldon

• Great Stainton als. Stainton in the Street 1676 Lond

Etymology

'Settlement, estate at the stony place', OE  *stāning + tūn. Great Stainton lies on the Roman road from Middleton St George to Durham, Margary No. 80a, and it is tempting to assume that in this name the stāning referred to a stretch of exposed Roman pavement. For this reason Ekwall proposed OE  stānweg as the etymon here and for Stannington Northumberland, DEPN s.nn., as in the common place-names Stanway and Stowey. The forms for Stannington, however, Stanigton 1242, 1271, Stanington 1254, 1257, Steynington 1255, Stayngton 1270, Stanyngton 1346, like those for Stainton clearly to point to an -ing formation on stān parallel (though without i -umlaut) to such formations as *brēmling , *cærsing , marling , *þyrning etc. The ei , ay , ai spellings are ME graphies for a which remained unrounded and fell together with ai in northern dialects rather than indications of the influence of ON  steinn , Jordan § 19.