Yapham
Major Settlement in the Parish of Pocklington
Historical Forms
- Iapun 1086 DB
- Iapum 1234 Ch 1252 FF 1235
- Yapun 1138 RegAlb 1296 Hom
- Yapum 1150–61 YCh442 1208 FF 1230 Ebor 1350 Ipm
- Yappum c.1270 YI
- Yaphum 1293 QW
- Yapom 1280 YI 1316 NomVill
- Yapoun 1359 Ipm
- Yapon 1372 FF
- Japun 1200 Abbr, Cur, FF
- Japum t.Ric1 Ch 1308 FF 1202 Ass 1219 FF 1373
- Jabum 1231 Ass
- Yapam 1276 RH 1530 FF 1546 YChant
- Yapham 1451 Test 1565 FF
- Yapeham 1550 FF
- Yapecroft 1316 YD
Etymology
OE gēap is used in a variety of senses, amongst others 'open, wide, lofty, steep, deep, bent, crooked,' and there is some evidence for its use in place-names, as in OE on geapan garan BCS 624 (cf. Middendorff 59) and in Yapham (PN D 79). In both these names it seems to be used adjectivally, but in Yapham, which is from the OE dat. plur. gēapum , it is used as a substantive. The village of Yapham stands high up on the slope of a fairly steep hill and we must interpret the name as 'at the steep places.' A Lincolnshire dialect word yaup (from OE geāp with stress-shifting as in Yapham) is used of 'a slope of land.' There was in Yapham parish a field called Yapecroft 1316 YD.