English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

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Wartling

Major Settlement in the Parish of Wartling

Historical Forms

  • Werlinges 1086 DB
  • Wareling' 1201 Cur
  • Wertlingis, Wertlinges 12th ADiii c.1200 ADA15493 1244 Ch
  • Wortling, Wortlyng 1199 Cur 1337 Ch 1407 IpmR
  • Wortelyng' 1353 Ass 1379 Pat
  • Wrotlyng(ge) 1337 Ch 1339 Cl 1381 IpmR 1389 FF
  • Wartling', Wartlyng' 1230 FF 1391 ADvi 1483 IpmR
  • Wratlyng 1439 Cicestr
  • Wratling 1589 Recov
  • Werteling 1232 1256 FF
  • Wertling, Wertlyng 1240 FF 1429 ADvi
  • Weredling 1264 Pat
  • Wret(e)lyng 1301–18 Ch 1334 Ipm
  • Wirtling 1265 Ch 1291 Tax
  • Wryteling 1316 Pat
  • Wrytlyng 1318 Cl
  • Writlyngge 1337 Cl
  • Waterlynge 1517 BM
  • Watling otherwise Wertlinge 1573 SRS3,83
  • Wartling al Watling 1707 Recov

Etymology

'The people of Wyrtel' (v. ing ), cf. Worsham in Bexhill infra 494, which may have taken its name from the same man.v. Ekwall, PN in -ing 64.