Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Wynyerd c.1270×80 Spec 1439 IPM 1485,1551 Lond 1549 IPM

• Winyerd 1307 Lond

• Wynhard' 1311 RPD

• Wynhyard' 1311 ib

• Wynyhard 1314 ib

• Wynard c.1280 Spec 1633 Lond

• Wiuerd (sic) c.1310 Spec

• Wynnard 1581 Man 1654 GD

• Wyneard 1647 ib

• Wyneyard 1283,1344 Lond 1349 IPM

• villa de Wyneyard 1351,1596 Wills

• Wyneyard' 1283,1349 Lond 1421 Spec

• Wyneʒard 1330 Finc

• Wyneyerd 1439×40 IPM

• Wineyard' 1626 Lond

• wineyard 1629 ib

• Wynyard 1316etfreqto1821 Lond 1360 GT 1365 Halm 1379×8etfreqto1620×1 IPM 1423,1481(p) Spec 1596 Wills

• Mannor or lordshippe of Wynyard 1609 Lond

• Wyneard 1349 ib

• Wynyard' 1349,1382,1626 ib

• Wyniard 1367 ib

• Winyard 1581,1587 Wills 1611,1629 Lond

• Winyard als Wyndyard 1663 ib

• Winyard als Windyard als Wineyard 1690 ib

• Mannour Lordpp' or Grange of Winyard 1693 ib

• Winyard 1717etfreqto1741 1803 Rob

• Winyard otherwise Wineyard otherwise Windyard 1737 Lond

• Wynyarde 1417,1418 Spec 1547etfreqto1630 Lond 1587 Wills

• Wynzerde 1428 GD

• Wynʒarde 1547 Lond

• Winyarde 1629 ib

• Wyniers (sic) 1549 IPM

• Winyard 1623 SurteesIII77–8

• Windyarde 1626,1629 Lond

• Windyard 1627 ib

• Wyndyard 1627,1693 ib

• Windyard' 1628 ib

• Wineyard 1663 Lond 1666×7 GD

• the Mann' Lorshippe or Grange of Winniard 1669 Lond

• the manor Lorshipp or Grange of Winnyard 1693 Lond

• Manor lordship Hamlet or Grange of Winyard & the Capl messuage called Winyard Hall 1717 Lond

• that capitall messuage of Winyard called Winyard Hall 1717 ib

Etymology

'Vineyard', OE  wīn-geard. Identical with Winyard near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, Wyneierd , Wynyerd 13 PNW 53 and the frequent p.n. Vineyard. Earlier writers have resisted this explanation preferring OE  wyln (wielen ) 'a female slave' and yeard 'a yard' (Boyle), 'Wine's yard or enclosure' (NbDu 221, “The climate forbids us to interpret it as wingeard , vineyard”), OE  winn 'meadow' and geard 'enclosure' (Ekwall, Masters). But climatic conditions were less averse to viniculture in the Middle Ages even in the north and there was even a modern wine- producing vineyard at nearby Whitworth Hall in recent times.