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.

Sonning Hundred

Hundred in the County of Berkshire

Historical Forms

  • Suningis c.1180 HMCVarColl1
  • Suninges 1224–5,1261 Ass
  • Sunninges 1241 ib
  • Sunynghes, Suni'gg', Sunin'ge, Suniges 1275–6 RH
  • Sunnynge 1284 Ass
  • Sonnynge 1316 FA

Etymology

v. Sonning 132–3.