Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Imungeham (sic) 1086 DB

• In Mingeham (sic) 1086 DB

• Immungheham c.1115 LS

• Immingeham c.1115 1205 ChR

• Ymmingeham 1205 ib

• Imingeham 1220 FineR

• Imyngeham 1305 Ch

• Ymingeham 1209–35 LAHW c.1221 Welles

• Immingham Hy1,1100–15(c.1240) YChii 1233 Welles 1249 Ch 1276 Cl 1281 QW 1315 Ipm 1610 Speed

• Immyngham 1281 Tax 1286,1291,1294 Ipm 1316 Yarb 1323 Ipm 1327 SR 1428 FA 1576 Saxton

• Ymmingham 1157–80 YChiii 1203 P Hy3 Selby 13–14

• Ymmyngham 1545 LPxx

• Imingham c.1190 Dane 1242–3 Fees 1254 ValNor 1290 RSu 1559 InstBen 1576 LER

• Imyngham 1259 Cl 1276 RH 1303 FA 1308 Inqaqd 1316 FA 1332 SR 1338 Cl 1565 Pat

• Ymingham 1202 Ass 1265 RRGr

• Ymyngham 1535 VEiv

• Himmingehaim c.1163 CottCh

• Himmingham 1163–70 YChi 1212 Fees

• Himingham lHy2 NCot m13 Fees 1212 Pap 1237

• Hymingham 1238–43 Fees 1539–40 Dugdiv

• Hymyngham 1256 FF 1543 LPxviii 1545 ib

• Emmingeham a1135 Whit c.1240 OblR 1216

• Emmingham c.1078 Whit c.1240 YChii 1090–96(c.1240),1145–48(c.1240)

• Emmigham (sic) c.1148 YDvii 1166–80 YChxi

• Emmyngham 1136 c.1240 LPxiv 1539

• Emyngham 1389 Cl 1424 Yarb

• Iningham (sic) 1276 RH 1351 Ipm

• Inyngham 1501 1566 Pat

• Imingham alias Innyngham alias Iningham 1566 Pat

Etymology

'The homestead of the Immingas', v. -ingahām , the first el. being the gen.pl. Imminga of the group-name Immingas 'the followers, the people of Imma ', as suggested by Ekwall (PN -ing 145). The DB spellings are clearly errors, while the c.1163 form in -haim shows the influence of ON  heimr, cognate with OE  hām.Immingham is one of four such group-names in north-east L, north of Grimsby, the others being Healing in Bradley Wapentake, the lost Lopingham in East Halton parish supra , Killingholme and Stallingborough infra . These names are confidently believed to belong to an early period of Anglo-Saxon settlement in the areas in which they occur.