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.

Wappingthorn Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Steyning

Historical Forms

  • Wapingetorne 1086 DB 1350 Ipm
  • Woppingethorn' 1242 Fees690
  • Woppyngthorn 1342 Ass 1349 Ipm
  • Wepingethorn 1261 Ass
  • Wappingethorn 1266 FF
  • Wappyngthorn 1358 Ipm

Etymology

'Thorn-tree of the people of Wæppa ,' v. þorn and cf. Wephurst and Wepham supra 108, 167.