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.

Effingham

Major Settlement in the Parish of Effingham

Historical Forms

  • Effingeham 675,933(13th) BCS 697,1062(13th) KCD812 1180 P 1242 Fees c.1242 Merton 1247 FF 1314 Ipm
  • Effingham 1283 Ipm
  • Epingeham 1086 DB

Etymology

'ham(m) of Æffa 's people,' v. ingaham .