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.

Poynings

Major Settlement in the Parish of Poynings

Historical Forms

  • Puningas 960 BCS1055
  • Puninges 12th ADA14201
  • Poninges 1086 DB 1242 Fees690 1262 Ass 1272 Ch
  • Ponynges 1339 Ipm 1489 Ipm
  • Punninges 1203 SAC26,186 1246 Pat 1248 Ass
  • Punnings 1690 SRS13,202
  • Punning' 1235 FF
  • Punnyng 1525 DunBev
  • Ponyng t.Ed1 IpmR 1296,1332 SR
  • Poning 1284 Ipm 1327 SR
  • Poinynges 1369 IpmR

Etymology

'The people of Pūn (a ).' This name is not recorded, but for the possibility of such a name v. PN in -ing 62 and PN Wo 244s. n. Pansington. The vowel was shortened in the trisyllable.

Places in the same Parish