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.

Staunton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Staunton

Historical Forms

  • Stantun 972 BCS1282 c.1050 KCD619 978 11th
  • Stanton 1275 SR
  • Staunton 1327 SR 1346 FA

Etymology

v. stan , tun , and for spelling v. IPN 105. This was sometimes distinguished from the other Stauntons as Staunton in Corse, or near Corse (v. Habington i. 374–5, Nash ii. 372), cf. Corse Lawn in Eldersfield 197supra .

Places in the same Parish