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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.

Trumfleet

Early-attested site in the Parish of Barnby upon Don

Historical Forms

  • Trumfleit 1180–5 YChviii
  • Trumflet(e) 1194–9 1197 Ebor 1301 FF 1202 FF 1374
  • Trumfleete 1675 Comm52
  • Trunflet 1195–1205 YChviii l.12 Lewes303 1202 DodsN
  • Trunfleet 1638 SessnR
  • Trowmflete 1428 WillY
  • Trumplete 1496 FF

Etymology

'Stream flowing in a circular course', v. trun , flēot .