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.

Minsons

Other OS name in the Parish of Willingale Spain

Historical Forms

  • Wyllinghall Mynchyn 1535 VE

Etymology

is Wyllinghall Mynchyn 1535 VE, Michins 1567, Mynsons alias Myttons 1578,Minsons alias Minstons 1683 M . OE  myncen , ' nun , ' so called from the nuns of Clerkenwell . Cf. Minchins supra 477 .

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