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.

Wellingham

Early-attested site in the Parish of Ringmer

Historical Forms

  • Wellingeham 1087–1100 Lewes
  • Welingeham 1296 SR
  • Welynggehamme 1347 Pat
  • Wel(l)ingham 1240 FF 1248,1279 Ass 1327 SR
  • Wylling(e)ham 1279 Ass
  • Willinggehamme 1307 Ass

Etymology

OE  wiellingahamm , 'hammof the dwellers by the stream,' cf. the name wellinga stan supra 272s. n. Stoneland.