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.

Stainton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Stainton

Historical Forms

  • Stantun, Stantone 1086 DB 13 Lewes295d
  • Stainton(a), Staynton(a) c.1130–40 YCh c.1140 Nost73 1164–81 YCh 1199 Ch 1232 Nost46d c.1216 Ch 1270 YI 1277 KI 1285 WillY 1552
  • Stoney Stainton 1739 YDr
  • Staineton' 1249 RegAlbii,7
  • Steintun, Steinton' 1196 P l.12 Lewes302 1202 FF 1208–13 Fees 1218 FF 1627 PRCnt
  • Steneton 1375 YDxvi,89
  • Stenton 1398 ib

Etymology

'Stone farmstead', v. stān (replaced by ON  steinn), tūn . 'Stone' may denote that it was built of stone or to the fact that Stainton is 'situated in a fissure of the limestone rock' (Hnt i, 255), hence also the affix Stoney (v. stānig ).