Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Angemeringatun c.880 BCS553 c.1000

• Angemæringum c.880 BCS553 c.1000

• Angemeringe, Angemerynge 1292 Ipm 1302 RH 1385,1397 IpmR

• Angemereyng 1338 Ipm

• Aingmaryng 1378 Pat

• Angmarryng 1438 Pat

• Angemare 1086 DB

• Hangemare 1176 P

• Angemare c.1220 Pens 1230,1240 FF 1233 Cl 1242 Fees688 1262 Ass

• Angemere 1176 P c.1220 Pens 1249,1295 FF 1261 Ass 1303,1310 Cl

• Ameringe 1627 Wills

Etymology

There were two manors and two parishes of Angmering, East (cf. Estanm 'ing 1271Ass ) and West (cf. Westtangemere , 1288 Abbr).

The probable history of this name is that it is, as suggested by Ekwall (PN in -ing 54–5), an ingas formation from a pers. name Angenmǣr , an unrecorded pers. name with the same first element as the Angenlāf of Angenlabeshaam in Essex (BCS 81).A first element Ange - is not out of the question, cf. Förstemann (PN 167). We have another name in Ange - or Angen - in Angricesburne (KCD 813), in a late Essex charter. A further trace of the pers. name Ange (n )mær may be found in Agmerhurst infra 477. The loss of final ing in a good many of the early forms is perhaps due to confusion with numerous place-names ending in -mere , the added ing-suffix being thought superfluous (cf. note on Layston (Herts) in PN Wo 31). Similar loss of a second element is found in Hilborough (Wa), Hildeburhwrthe BCS 127 which from 1436 onwards appears without the worth and Barston (Wa), DBBertanestone , 13th AD i Berstonestun , 1322 AD i Berstone .