Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Answort' 1583–4 Orm2ii127

• Ansor(e) 1618–19,1620–1 ib

• Ainsworth in Croton 1671 Sheaf

Etymology

[ einz- ] , 1780EnclA , Answort '1583–4 Orm2 ii127,Ansor (e )1618–19, 1620–1 ib, Ainsworth in Croton 1671 Sheaf , from worð ' an enclosure, a curtilage ' and lane , with an unidentified first el . Professor Löfvenberg suggests an OE  pers.n. Ægen proposed in DEPN s.n. Eynsford for Eynsford K 39 , Eynsham O 258 ( but see Studies3 46 ) , Eynsworth Ess ( Ainsworth Ess 517 ) , Ainsworth La 53 . But the early spellings for the Ch p.n. indicate short a which tells against the analogy .