Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Stantone 1086 DB

• Stanton' 1226 ChR

• Stanton 1535 VEiv

• Staintone 1086 DB

• Stainton 1086 ib

• Staintona Hy2 RPD

• Stainton' 1180 P 1185 Templar 1202 Ass eHy3 Selby 14

• Stainton 1254 ValNor 1272 Ass 1300 Ipm 1558 WillsStow 1559 Pat

• Staintun 1223 Foster

• Staynton 1281 QW

• Staynton iuxta Wadyngham 1295 Ass 1303 FA 1303 Ipm 1306,1311 KR 1316 FA 1328 Banco 1337 Abbr 1346 FA 1348 Pat 1551 et passim

• Steintuna c1115 LS

• Steinton' 1183,1184,1185,1186,1187,1188 P 1196 ChancR John RPD 1211 Cur 1287 Ipm

• Steynton' 1242–43 Fees 1339 HarlCh

• Stainton Hall Farm 1914 Waite

Etymology

From OE  stān 'a stone' and OE  tūn 'a farmstead, a village', with stān replaced by the cognate ON  steinn and identical in etymology with Stainton by Langworth (LSR), Stainton le Vale (LNR) and Market Stainton (LSR). Arthur Owen, “Roads and Romans in South-East Lindsey: the Place-Name Evidence” in Names , Places and People , Stamford 1997, p. 265, draws attention to the fact that these three places adjoin a Roman road or a prehistoric trackway, and the same is true of the lost Stainton here. It is likely that the “stone” in all four names refers to Romano-British remains rather than to the nature of the ground, which in any case is topographically inappropriate for Stainton in Waddingham.