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.

Homington

Major Settlement in the Parish of Homington

Historical Forms

  • Humming tun 956 BCS962 12th
  • Humitone 1086 DB
  • Humintona, Humintone 1130,1190 P 1310 AD
  • Hominton 1244 StNicholas
  • Homynton 1289,1310 Ass 1316 FA
  • Humminton t.John AD
  • Hommynton 1244 StNicholas
  • Humington 1236 FF
  • Humyngton 1273 FF 1299 ADvi

Etymology

'Humma 's farm,' v. ingtun . Humma might be a pet form of an OE  personal name such as Hūnbeald .

Places in the same Parish