Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Rammesburi 947 BCS828 14th

• Rammesbiri 1091 StOsmund

• Rammesberia 1175 P

• Rammesbir' 1227 ClR

• Rammesbur' 1228 FF

• Rammesbury 1240 Ch

• Hremnesbyrig c.990 Crawford

• Remmisbiri(a) 1227 Ch 1239 Bracton

• Remmesbir' 1275 RH

• Remmesbury 1291 Tax 1294 Ch 1310 BM

• Remmesburi 1335 ADii

• Remsburye 1577 AD

• Reamnesbyrig c.1050 SD

• Reamesbyrig c.1150 FW

• Remnesbery 1281 QW

• Ramesberie 1086 DB c.1125 ANG

• Ramesbiria c.1150 HMCVari

• Ramesberi 1164 P

• Ramesbiri c.1220 HMCVari

• Ramesbur' 1249 Ass

• Ramesbir' 1275 RH

• Remesbir' 1232 HMCVari

• Remesbyr' 1268 Ass

• Remesbyri 1275 RH

• Remesbur' 1332 SR

• Rammesbury al. Remesbury 1543 FF

• Remsbury t.Eliz WMxxi

Etymology

'Raven's burh' or 'Hræfn 's burh.' Hræfn is the OE  hræfn , 'raven,' possibly used here as a personal name. In late Latin documents of the OE  period the church and diocese of Ramsbury occasionally appear as ecclesia and parochia Coruinensis . Just ten miles north-north-east of Ramsbury there was another hremnesbyrig (BCS 687, 899, 1121) identified by Grundy (Berkshire Charters 26) with Rams Hill in Uffington (Berks).