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Survey of English Place-Names

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Shangton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Shangton

Historical Forms

  • Sanctone 1086 DB
  • Sanctona 1190×1204 France
  • Santone 1086 DB
  • Sanketon' l.12,e.13 ShR 1295,e.14 et passim
  • Sanketone 13 ib
  • Scanketon' c.1130 LeicSurv 1242 RGros l.13 ShR 1299 Ipm
  • Scanketona l.12 ShR
  • Scanketone l.13 ib
  • Scanketun 13 ib
  • Scancetona l.12 ib
  • Schanketon' 1206 Cur 1242 RGros 1310,1315 ShR 1360,1363 1427,1439 et passim
  • Schanketona p.1250,1274 1363,1378 ib
  • Schankton' 1403,1452 1579 LEpis
  • Shanketon' 1206 RFinib m.13 ShR 1330 FA 1361 Cl
  • Shankton' 1344 ShR 1352 Fine 1414 Pat 1428 ShR 1483,1484 1622 Burton 1688 LML
  • Shancton' 1410 Ct 1414,1454 ShR
  • Shanckton 1598,1608,1612 LML
  • Schangeton' 1274,1295 ShR 1444,1491 et passim
  • Schangton' 1274 ib
  • Shangeton 1304,1366 ShR
  • Shangton 1466 1535 VE 1576 LibCl
  • Shangkton 1623 ISLR
  • Saun(e)keton' 1295 ShR
  • Scaunqeton 1314,1315 Cl

Etymology

'The farmstead, village at the hill-spur', v. scanca , tūn . The township is situated in a valley below a narrow ridge which projects from high ground. OE  scanca 'a shank, a leg' is here transferred to this configuration of land which bends at its southern end like a foot attached to a leg, v. Studies 196. The eventual form of the name Shangton may have been influenced by the adjacent Langton