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.

Cannington

Other OS name in the Parish of Witheridge

Historical Forms

  • Canyngton 1330 SR

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Canyngton 1330SR (p) . ' Can (n)a 's farm , ' v. ingtun . Cf. Canworthy supra 390 , only a few miles distant and perhaps named after the same man .