Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• (æt) Sendan 960–2 BCS1063

• Sande 1086 DB 1200 Cur 1210 FF 1241 Ass

• Sandres 1197 FF t.Hy3 ADiii 1241 Ass

• Sandes 1204 Dugdvi,393 1321 FF 1205 Ass 1235

• Saundres 1232 Bracton 1255 Ass

• Saund(e) 1255 Ass 1257 ADiii 1258 FF

• Sonde(s) 1255,1272,1279 Ass c.1270 Winton

• Sendes 1235 FF, Ass

• Shende 1241 Ass

• Send(e) 1260 FF 1485 SrWills

• Scend 1607 SACxii

• Seende 1272 Ass 1294 FF 1297 Ipm 1313 Ass 1327 Banco 1340,1383 FF 1428 FA

• Senne 1584 Musters

Etymology

It would seem that here, as also in Seend (W), earlier Sende , we have an OE  *sænde , an i -derivative of the stem sand , denoting a sandy place. For such a derivative cf. Norw. dial. senda , 'sandy bottom,' probably the source of Senna in Conchan in the Isle of Man (Marstrander in Norsk. Tidskr. f. Sprogvidenskap vi, 172). See also Torp, s. v. senda f. 3. This would be a formation similar to OE  *stǣne , noted under Old Steine (PN Sx 292).Send is on a patch of Bagshot sand (VCH iii, 365). Seend is on ironsand. The form sendan is probably a late dat. pl. for sendum . Several of the later forms are also plural.