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.

Mongewell

Early-attested site in the Parish of Crowmarsh

Historical Forms

  • (æt) Mundingwillæ c.970 ASWills 12th
  • Mongewel 1086 DB
  • Mongewelle 1285 Ass
  • Mungewell' 1184 Ex late12th FF 1743
  • Mungell' 1240–1 Ass
  • Mongwell 1408–9 AD 1533–4 FF 1672 Bodl
  • Mungwell, Mungwell alias Monk's-Well early18th ParColl
  • Mundgwell 1646 FF
  • boscum de Mungewell' c.1275 AD

Etymology

'Munda 's stream' with connective -ing-, v . w(i)elle.