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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.

Sunderland

Early-attested site in the Parish of Warndon

Etymology

In the bounds of Cudley (BCS 1298), the boundary goes along a stræt , which is the original Worcester-Stratford-on-Avon road, thence to a spring and then on sunderlond . There can be no doubt that this is the curious peninsula-like projection of Warndon parish into the estate of Cudley. It practically touches the above-mentioned road. This then is 'separate land,' v. sundor and cf. Cinders Wood supra 84.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement