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.

Whitlinge

Early-attested site in the Parish of Hartlebury

Historical Forms

  • æt hwitan hlince 969 BCS1241 11th
  • Whiteling, Whyteling, Whitelyngge 1221 Ass 1309 FF 1337 Pat
  • Wittelinge 1221 Ass
  • Wyteling 1240 WoP 1275 Ass 1316 Cl
  • Wyklinge 1275 SR
  • Whitling 1642 QSR 1669 FF c.1830 O
  • Whitlench c.1890 Lithog1″

Etymology

'White ridge,' v. hlinc , hwit . Cf. on hwitan hlinces (BCS 1213).