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.

Whimpton Moor

Early-attested site in the Parish of Ragnall

Historical Forms

  • Wimentun 1086 DB
  • Wimuntton' 1168 P
  • Wimpton 1232 FF
  • Wympton 1280,1287 Ass 1301 Ebor 1316 FA
  • Wympeton 1405 FF
  • Wymppeton 1410 Wills

Etymology

'Wigmund ('s) farm,' v. tun and for the formation cf. Ompton supra 56–7.

Places in the same Parish