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Yanwath

Major Settlement in the Parish of Barton

Historical Forms

  • Euenewit 1150–62 YCh
  • Euenwith c.1270 Lowth
  • -wyt, -wys 1285 ib
  • Yauenwith(e), Yavenwith(e), -wyth c.1200 Lowth 1242 FF 1315 Ipm 1324 et freq
  • -whit 1373 Ipm 1374 Fine
  • Yauenewit(h), Yavenewit(h), -wyth 1246 Lowth 1265 Cl 1279 Ass11
  • Yafnewit 1247,a.1290 Lowth
  • Iafnewit 1277 Macheli,6
  • Yanenwyth (sic for Yau-) 1307,1363 Ipm
  • Yauventwith 1246 Knipe
  • Yhavenwith 1280 Lowth
  • Yawenwyth, Iawenwyth 13 Wyb 1246–9 Lowth
  • Yawnewyth 1279 Ass16d
  • Yawenwith 1337 SR
  • Yanewhyt 1279 Ass26
  • Yanewith, Yanewyth 1312 Fine 1323 Cl 1392 Rydal 1634 NB
  • Yenwyth, Yenwithe Hy6 Rent 1552 Visit 1590 FF
  • Yanwith, Yanwyth(e) 1370 Hom 1425 Lanc 1489 Ipm 1765 PR(Brm)
  • Yanwhit 1376 Ipm
  • Yanweth(e) 1546 Rent 1708 PR(Brt)
  • Yanwath 1670 PR(Brt) 1865 OS
  • Yeanwith 1668,1705 PR(Brt)
  • Yeanwath 1676,1700 ib
  • Yeanoth 1686,1688 ib
  • Yeanieth 1689 ib

Etymology

'Even, level wood', v. jafn , viðr . The earlier forms with Euen (e )- suggest that the first el. may be a Scandinavianised form of OE  efn (in Efna-wudu ), as Ekwall has suggested. Cf. Phonol. §24.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name