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.

Hampnett

Major Settlement in the Parish of Hampnett

Historical Forms

  • Heamtun 1061 KCD823
  • Hanton(e) 1086 DB 12 Ch 1267
  • Hampton(a) e.12 OxfCh 1274 RH 1330 Ch
  • Hamtonet(t) 1211–13 Fees 1227 Ch 1282 Ipm
  • Hamptonet(t) 1212 ClR 1220 Fees 1263 FF c.1270 Oseney Ed1 BM 1500 ECP
  • Hamptenet(te) 1287 FF 1290 Episc 1360 Ipm
  • Hampenet 1458,1529 FF
  • Hampnet(t) 1447 MinAcct 1454 FF 1714 PR

Etymology

'(At) the high farmstead', v. hēah (wk.dat. hēan ), tūn . As with the two Hampnetts in Sx 67, 78, the French  diminutive suffix -et was added by the 13th century.

Places in the same Parish