Bemerton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Bemerton
Historical Forms
- Bimertone 1086 DB
- Bimerton(e) 1241 FF 1242 Fees 1258 Misc 1281,1289 Ass
- Bymerton 1249 1262 StNicholas 1271 FF 1288 Ipm 1306 Pat 1325 Ipm
- Bimberton 1259 Cl
- Bymirtone 1306 FF
- Beomertona 1107 Ch 1300
- Bumerton(e) 1281,1289 Ass 1316 FA 1339 Ipm 1346 Cl 1368 Pat 1386 IpmR
- Bymerton al. Bemerton 1399 IpmR
- Bemerton 1426 Ass t.Eliz WMxxi
- Bymerton ib.
- Bymmerton 1460 IpmR
- Bimmerton 1553 WMx
Etymology
In BCS 27 we have mention of a boundary-mark to bymera cumbe which must be some five miles away. The names seem to mean 'farm and combe of the trumpeters' (v. tun ), from OE bȳmera , gen. pl. of bȳmere , 'trumpeter.' Cf. Hornblotton (So and DEPN s. n .) which is probably 'homblowers' farm,' Bemerhills supra 216 and Bemerekill (1574 WM xxxiv) in Winterbourne Stoke.