Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Æþelmodes treow 962 ASChartxxxiv late11th BCS1086

• Ermundestre, Ermundistre 1189 France J BM

• Elmondestreo 1201 BM

• (H)elmundestre 1287 Ass 1301 Ch 1415 Cl

• Eylmundestre 1226 Monast 1263 FF 1287 Ass 1413 Pat

• Heilmundestre 13 BGlxxiii,167

• Ail(e)mondestre, Ayl(e)mondestre 1535 VE 1544 1570 FF

• Almundestre 1327 SR

• Aylmynstre als. Elmystre 1464 Pat

• Elm(e)stree 1587 FF 17 PR

• Elmestrie 1594 SurvTet

Etymology

'Æthelmund's or Æthelmōd's tree', v. trēow . The identification of the OE form is not certain. On OE  Æþel - becoming ME  Ail -, Eyl -, etc., cf. Feilitzen 102–6.