Starmore (earlier Stormsworth)
Major Settlement in the Parish of Westrill and Starmore
Historical Forms
- Stormeorde 1086 DB
- Stormode 1086 DB
- Stormesworth(e) 1156×73,a.1250 Selby 1276 RH 1424 Wyg 1578 Braye
- Stormesword 1229,a.1250 Selby
- Stormysworth(e) 1497,1518 Braye 1530 CoPleas 1536 Braye
- Stormsworth 1559 Ipm 1606 Terrier
- Stormeworth 1239 Cur a.1250 Selby 1316 Banco 1352 Peake
- Stormworth 1208 Cur a.1250 Selby 1497 Braye 1519 Wyg 1638,1674 Terrier
- Stormwurth 1243 Fees
- Stormysworth alias dict' Stormore 1518 Braye
- Stormore alias Stormysworth 1518 ib
- Stormer 1703,1733 Terrier
- Starmer 1733 Terrier
- Starmor 1724 ib
- Starmore 1765,1781 ib
Etymology
'The enclosure belonging to a man called Storm', v. worð . The OE masc. pers.n. Storm is unrecorded. It is probably an original by-name, cf. OE storm 'storm, tempest, attack' which may be compared with the OScand masc. pers.n. Styrmir , itself a by-name meaning 'one who storms forward in battle; the impetuous one' (SPNLY 269). The lost settlement lay in the north of the modern parish where it is still remembered in the field-name High Starmore .
There is little record of moorland hereabouts to suggest late influence of mōr on the form of the generic. The development of the name may be presented simply as: Stormesworth > Stormsworth > Stormworth > *Stormorth > Stormore > Starmore .