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.

Winton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Kirkby Stephen

Historical Forms

  • Winton(ia), Wynton(ia), -tuna 1090–7 Kend 1157 YCh Rici Ch 1308 P 1179–1202 Cur 1223 1256,1279 Dep 1663
  • Wenton' 1202 P

Etymology

'Pasture farmstead', v. winn 1 , tūn (so Ekwall), but 'wind-swept farm' (v. wind 1 ) is also possible.

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site