Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• into esthemmere 706 BCS117 13th

• ad Eastune 930 BCS667 11th KCD1295 1002

• Estvne 1086 DB

• Eston' 1236 Fees

• Eston' Johannis 1220,1236 Fees

• Eston' Somervill 1285 FA

• Aston Someruill', Aston Somervil(l)(e), Aston Somervyl(e) 1287 Ass 1291 Tax 14 ADiii 1302 Ipm 1311 Lanth223 1760 M

• Aston Sumervill 1303 Pat

• Aston Somerfeld 1535 VE

• Sumerfield Aston 1706 PR

Etymology

'East farmstead', v. ēast , tūn , probably because it lies east of the R. Isbourne. The family of Somerville held the manor from the 13th century (1291 Tax, 1303, 1316 FA, 1325, 1622FF , etc.). On the earliest spelling esthemmere 'boundary of the dwellers at Aston' v. hǣme , (ge)mǣre; cf. Chipping Campden and Weston Subedge (i, 237, 261 supra ) for the elliptical form; Aston Subedge (i, 232supra ) has a similar form in OE.