Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• fisseb' c.1170×80 Spec

• Fisseburn 1180×6 GD late12th,1198×1204(p) GD

• fisseburna c.1190,c.1197×1217(p),c.1200×10 Spec

• Fisseburn' c.1195×1200(p)etfreqto1220(p) Spec

• fisseburn' c.1195×1200 ib

• fisseburne late12th GD c.1195×1200(p),1197×1217(p),c.1200×10(p) Spec

• fisseburn 1250×1300 GD

• fisseb'ne c.1200 Spec

• ffisseburn 13th GD

• Fisseburne 1256 GD

• Fysseburn 1296 Halm

• ffysseburne 1321 Spec

• ffissburn' 1183 BB c.1382

• ffysburne 1319 Spec

• ffissbo'n 1298 ib

• fyesborn 1352 Ct

• fysborn 1362 Ct

• fisscheburn' 1233×44 Spec

• Fischeburn 1305 Newm

• Fischeburn' 1311 RPD

• ffysscheburn' 1312 Spec

• ffischeburne 1356 Ct

• Fissheburn' 1313×14 Rav 1458 Pont

• Fissheburn 1339etfreqto1458×9 IPM

• Fissheburne 1339(p)etfreqto1417 IPM

• Fyssheburn 1183 BB 15th IPM 1439,1530

• ffissheburn' c.1225 Spec 15th

• ffyssheburn', ffyscheburne 1405×6 ManAccts

• Fyssheburn' c.1500 Pont

• ffissheborne 1522 GD

• fisheburn' 1352 Ct

• fisheburne 1506 Wills

• Fisheborne 1522 ib

• Fisheburne 1561 IPM

• Fysheburne 1564 ib

• ffixeburn' c.1250 Elemos

• ffyshburne 1345 GD

• Fisshburne 1349,1488,1508 IPM

• Fisshburn 1369etfreqto1516 IPM

• Fysshburne 1380etfreqto1498 IPM

• ffisshburn' 1382 Hatf 1426×7 Spec

• ffyshburn' 1388 Ct

• ffishburn' 1407×8 ManAccts

• Fysshburn 1421etfreqto1529 IPM

• ffysshburn' 1424 Ct 1459 Spec

• ffysshburn 1431 GD 1459 DCD 1520 Spec

• ffysshburne 1454 Spec

• ffyschbowrn' 1482 DCD

• ffishburne 1701 Loosebox2

• feschburne 1374 Ct

• Fyshburn 1505,1506,1507 IPM

• Fyshburne 1539,1558×9 ib

• Fishburn 1403×4 ib

• Fishburne 1549,1622,1625 IPM 1641 GDCbox3/2 1674 EnclA 1886 Hud 1723×4 Bran 1729 after1733

• Fishbourne 1605×6 IPM 1641 GDCbox3/2

• Fishborne 1660 GDCbox3/2

• Fishbourn 1675 Ogilby

• Fisseburne 1267 PNWt 49

Etymology

'Fishes' stream', OE  fisc, genitive pl. fisca , + burna . “The village is scattered along a dry swell of limestone, considerably North of the beck which has given its name”, Surtees III 50. Identical with Fishbourne Isle of Wight SZ 5992, Fisseburne 1267 PNWt 49, and West Sussex SU 8304, Fiseborne 1086, Fyssheborne 1289 PNSx 70.