Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Abinceborne 1086 DB

• Abingewurd' 1191 P

• Abingewrde 1198 Abbr

• Abinge (w)urth 1200 Cur 1241 FF 1263 Ass

• Abingeworth 1291 Tax 1378 Cl

• Abbingewurda 1191 P

• Abbingewrth 1201 Cur

• Abbingeworde 1221–30 Fees

• Abbingeworth 1223 Pat 1225 Ass 1282 Winton

• Abbingewurth 1241 Ass 1242 Fees

• Abbyngesworth 1279 Ass

• Abingworth' 1199 Cur

• Abingwrthe 1210–12 RBE

• Abbingworthe 1273–92 Ipm 1282 Winton 1322 Ipm

• Abynchere 1552 FF

• Abbyngere 1558 SR

• Abbenger t.Eliz ChancP

• Abbynsworth al. Abynger 1557 FF

• Abyngworth al. Abinger 1592 BM

• Abynger al. Abyngeworth 1593 Recov

• Ainger 1800 ParReg

Etymology

'Farm of Abba 's people,' v. ing , worþ . The DB form is clearly corrupt. For the phonology, cf. Bobbingworth (Ess), which is Bobbinger in some 17th and 18th century spellings (ex inf. Dr P. Reaney) and Horningsheath (earlier Horningsworth ) al. Horringer (PN Sf 66).