East Clandon
Major Settlement in the Parish of East Clandon
Historical Forms
- Clendone 675,933(13th) BCS
- Clendune 967 BCS1195 13th
- Clenedune 1062 KCD812 13th
- Clanedun 1086 DB
- Clandone 1240 Cl 1327 Ipm
- Clendon 1201 FF 1205 Cur 1325 Ipm
- Clenedon' 1206 Cur
- East Cleyndon 1243 FF
- Estclendon 1255 Ass
- Clendon Abbatis 1281 FF 1291 Tax 1428 FA
Etymology
'The clean down,' v. clæne , dun . Cf. Clandown (So), Glendon (PN Nth 113). The name may have referred originally to the bare smooth expanse of the chalk downs above the two villages of East and West Clandon. The abbot of Chertsey held the manor from the time of the earliest records.