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.

Ditchampton

Early-attested site in the Parish of Wilton

Historical Forms

  • (æt) Dichæmatune 1045 KCD778 13th
  • Dicehantone 1086 DB
  • Dichamton 1202 Cur 1203 FF
  • Dichampton 1242 Fees
  • Dychehampton 1268 Ass
  • Dechementone 1086 DB
  • Dechington al. Dechehampton 1549 FF
  • Dichington 1674 ParReg

Etymology

'tunof the dwellers by the dic,' v. hæme . So named from Grim's Ditch (supra 15) which runs north through Grovely Wood.

Places in the same Parish