English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

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Greystones

Early-attested site in the Parish of Haughton le Skerne

Historical Forms

  • uilla de Greistanes 1189×1209 Ct 1242×3 Ass
  • Graistanes 1218×34 Ct
  • Graystanes 1313 RPD 1355 NCD 1361 IPM 1527(several(p)),1377(p) Spec 1387×8
  • 'manor of' Graistans 1350 Rot
  • Graystans 1377,1378(both(p)) Spec
  • manerium de Graystans 1382 Hatf 1391×2 IPM
  • manerium de Craystons 1382 Hatf
  • Graystane 1382 Hatf
  • 'manor of' Graystane 1442×3 IPM
  • Graystones 1485,1509,1527,1612 IPM
  • Graistonnes 1567 IPM
  • Greystones Farm 1788 DX1022/173
  • the manor of Greystones and Humbleton otherwise Nesbitt in Haughton le Skern 1801 DX1022/34

Etymology

'The grey stones', OE  græg + stān, pl. stānas . The reference is unknown but cf. Grey Stone House PNYN 133, Graystanes 12th, Graistan 13th, and Greystone Farm ib 202, Grastan c.1217.