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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.

Bevington Waste

Early-attested site in the Parish of Abbots Morton

Historical Forms

  • Biuintona c.1086 EveA 1190 FA 1316
  • Biuington 1262 For
  • Beuynton 1332 SR

Etymology

This would seem to contain a pers. name Bifa allied to the OGer  names Bibo , Biba (Förstemann PN 299–300), of which we have a geminated form in the OE  pers. name Bibba only found in the place-name bibban hlincg (BCS 758). Hence 'Bifa's farm,' v. ingtun .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement