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.

Middlesex

Volume edited by : J. E. B. Gover. Allen Mawer, F. M. Stenton 1942

Historical Forms

  • provincia quae nuncupatur Middelseaxan 704 BCS111 8th
  • (in) Middil Saexum 767 ib
  • provincia Middelsaxanorum 831 ib
  • (on) middel Seaxan 962 ib
  • Middel-Seaxum c.1000 Asser
  • Middelseaxe 1011 ASC c.1150
  • Middelsexe 1011 ASC c.1050
  • Middelsex 1072–6 StPaulsCh
  • Midelsexe 1086 DB
  • provincia Midelsexorum 757 BCS182 12th
  • (in) Middelsexan 959 BCS1050 c.1200
  • (on) Middel Sexum t.EdwConf KCD855 c.1200

Etymology

For the significance of the name 'Middle Saxons' v. Introd xiii.