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.

Wimborne St Giles Hundred

Hundred in the County of Dorset

Historical Forms

Hd of Upwymbourne Seynt Gylis 1542 LP
Wimborne St Giles hd 1570 Anderson
Hundred and Parish of St Giles Vpwimborne 1664 HTax

Etymology

named from Wimborne St G. infra .

Parishes in this Hundred

Parish