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.

Bengeo

Major Settlement in the Parish of Bengeo

Historical Forms

  • Belingehou 1086 DB
  • Belingeho t.Hy1 BM
  • Benyngeh' 1155–8 Ch 1330
  • Beningeho 1209–35 Wells 1210–12 RBE 1222,1253 FF 1248 Ass
  • Benyngeho 1276 FF
  • Benyggeho 1304 Ipm
  • Beningho 1202 Cur 1428 FA
  • Benyngho, Beninghoo 1303 1317 FF 1320 Ch
  • Benigho 1220 Fees 1243 Cur 1251 FF
  • Benighoo 1307 SR
  • Beringho 1255 Ass
  • Benningeho 1270 Ch
  • Beneggho 1275 ADi
  • Benyngio 1378 Pat
  • Bengeho 1378 BM 1390 FF
  • Bengehewe 1451 ECP
  • Bengehoo 1478 IpmR
  • Bengeohall t.Hy8 Add
  • Benghoo 1461 Ct
  • Bengeo 1517 FF
  • Benjoy 1535 VE
  • Ben Joy 1549 Pat
  • Benjowe 1555 FF
  • Bengoe al. Bengehoe Hall al. Ben Jowe 1594 ib

Etymology

'The spur of land of the dwellers by the river Bean,' v. ing , hoh and Bean river supra 1 and Bennington supra 121.