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.

Beddington

Major Settlement in the Parish of Beddington

Historical Forms

  • Bedintone, Bedyntone 675 BCS 13th BCS697 933 Ch 13th P 1155–8 Ch 1330 1194 1318
  • Beaddinctun 901–8 BCS618 c.1150 BCS1155 c.965 c.1150
  • Beaddingtun 909 BCS620
  • Beddintone 1086 DB
  • Beddyngton 1340 FF
  • Beddington 1589 SR
  • Bidintona 1239 Bracton
  • Bedington, Bedyngton 1229,1247 FF
  • Bedington juxta Croynden 1274 Ass
  • Betyndon 1301 Ipm
  • Badyngton 1379 FF

Etymology

'Bēada 's farm,' v. ingtun , cf. Beeding, Beddingham (PN Sx 205, 358).

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site