Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• 'the hospital of St Margaret without Wumburn Ministre' 1256 Pat

• the hospital of St Margaret (the Virgin) and St Anthony' 1275,1286 Pat

• (the poor people of) Seynt Margetts 1524 WimCW

Etymology

( on site of St Margaret & St Antony 's Hospital ) , ecclesiæ Sanctæ Margaretæ de Wimborn John , domui leprosorum extra Wymborn Mynstre n.d. (c.13), capellae Sanctæ Margaretæ virginis , domus Sanctæ Margaretæ virginis c. Ed 1 all Hutch3, 'the hospital of St Margaret without Wumburn Ministre '1256 Pat, 'the hospital of St Margaret (the Virgin ) and St Anthony '1275, 1286 Pat, (the poor people of )Seynt Margetts 1524 WimCW , cf. Saint Margarets Grd 1847TA , v. VCHDo 2106–7 ; in the chapel of this hospital was Redcote 's chantry , Redcodde 's chantry 1534, 1540 Hutch3 , founded by John Rototod ( for Rotecod ) , chaplain in 1309 ib ( 3 189 – 191 ) , cf. also the f.n. Redcotts infra and Redcotts Rd & Redcotts Lane in Wimborne M . infra .