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.

Checkendon

Major Settlement in the Parish of Checkendon

Historical Forms

  • Cecadene 1086 DB
  • Chakenden c.1175–80 BC c.1444 Bodl 1768
  • Chakend' Marmiun 1220 Fees
  • Chacundene 1395 Cl
  • Chakeden' 1200 Cur 1301 Cl
  • Chekendane c.1215 Norman
  • Chekenden 1258 Ch
  • Chekynden 1559 Bodl
  • Chakesden' 1235–6 Fees
  • Iakendene 1262 FF
  • Chabenden 1278–9 RH
  • Thakendene, Chalkendene 1285 Ass
  • Shakynden 1428 FA
  • Checkingdon early18th ParColl
  • Ceacca wylles heafde 1012 KCD 1307

Etymology

Ekwall (DEPN) assumes a personal name *Ceacca as the first element of this and of the name Checkley found in Ch, He and St.There is a Ceacca wylles heafde 1012 KCD 1307 in the boundaries of Whitchurch, which, if the first element be in fact a personal name, must be named from the same man. Second element denu . For Marmiun v. Littlestoke infra .