English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Wandale

Early-attested site in the Parish of Bempton

Historical Forms

  • Wandailes 13th Bardney

Etymology

Wandale (6″) is Wandailes 13thBardney . This name occurs several times (v. Index). Cf. also Field-names infra 328. It is the dialectal word wandale 'share of the common arable land of a township,' probably once fenced off with wands or stakes (OScand  vǫndr 'twig' as in vand-balkr 'wall of sticks'), cf. Wandales (PN NRY 59). The second element is usually OWScand  deill, but it is occasionally OEScand  dēl or OE  dal.

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement