Steane
Major Settlement in the Parish of Steane
Historical Forms
- Stane 1086 DB
- Stanes 12th Survey 1294 Ch
- Stanis late12th BM
- Stenes 1249 WellsR 1285 FF
- Stene 1293 BM 1504 ADiii
- Stone 1326 Fine
- Stein 1335 Ch
- Steyn 1526 SR
Etymology
'At the stone.' For the plural form cf. Staines (Mx). We are well out of the Scandinavian area here and it can only be suggested that we have early confusion between stan and the lost OE *stǣne , 'stony-place,' discussed under Steine (PN Sx 292).