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.

Kingston

Other OS name in the Parish of Tidenham

Historical Forms

  • to cinges tune, to cynges tune 10 ASChartcix 12th
  • King(e)ston 1417,1439 Ipm

Etymology

( lost ) , to cinges tune , to cynges tune 10 (12th) ASChart cix, King (e )ston 1417, 1439 Ipm , ' the king's farm ' , v. cyning , tūn ; according to Grundy 245 , this was the old name of Sedbury (supra ) .