Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Jompyll bryg 1494 HAS

• Jompyl(e)s 1525,1532 ib

• Gompyles 1535 ib

• Jumples 1512 1797 Surv

• Jumples brigge, Jumples hole, Jumples Ing 1545 HAS

• Jumples Syke 1545 ib

Etymology

Jumples Ho, Jompyll bryg 1494 HAS 12, 115, Jompyl (e )s 1525, 1532 ib 116, Gompyles 1535 ib 117, Jumples 1512 ib 29, 229, 1797Surv , Jumples brigge , Jumples hole , Jumples Ing 1545 HAS 12, 118–19, Jumples Syke 1545 ib 120. There are several Jumple Holes in YW, as well as Jum Hole 101supra and Jumble Hole i, 251supra , 183 infra , cf. also Jumbles Lane ii, 137, Humble Jumble ii, 169supra (mostly without early material); they are, as in the case of Jumples Ho, with its references to -bryg (v. brycg ) and -Syke (v. sīc 'stream') associated with water and more particularly, according to HAS 12, 113, with 'a narrow clough where the beck tumbles over a rocky course under trees'. EDD cites dial. jumble-hole from YW with the sense 'a rough, bushy, uncultivated hollow'. The word seems to fluctuate between jumple and jumble , and, in view of Humble Jumble Row ii, 169supra , there seems no doubt that it is to be associated with e.ModE  jombyll 'jumble' and is used to describe some topographical feature of a muddled or disorderly nature (as of vegetation) or of a stream which flows in a disorderly way. Jumples Ho carries the use of this form of the word back to the fifteenth century. Jum Hole may also be a late spelling of the same word and Jumple(s) a later adaptation to the word jump (as in Jumps 173infra ).