Wallingwells
Major Settlement in the Parish of Wallingwells
Historical Forms
- Wallindewell 1202 P
- Wallendewell(e) 1227,1236 Ebor 1366 Cor
- Wallendewelles 1288 Ipm
- Wallendwell 1301 ib
- Wallandewell(e) 1232 FF
- Wallandewelles 1233 FF 1288 Ipm late13th BM
- Wallandwell' 1272 Ebor 1291 Tax
- le Wallandwell late13th HMCVarvii
- Wallandwelles 1317 For 1400 Pat 1451 HMCVarvii
- Wellandewell(e) 1233 FF 1301 Ebor
- Wellandeswell' 1251 Cl
- Wellandwell 1275 RH 1290 For
- Wallyngwelles 1482 Pat
- Wallingwelles 1551 DukRec
- Waleingwelles 1629 Recov
Etymology
'Bubbling spring(s),' v. wiell(e), with the usual ME variants in the form of the participial ending. The site is described by the founder of Wallingwells Priory (c. 1150) as locus in meo parcho de Carletuna (Carlton in Lindrick) iuxta fontes et rivum fontium (Dane 332).