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.

Kinwardstone Hundred

Hundred in the County of Wiltshire

Historical Forms

  • Cheneuuarestan hundred 1086 ExonDB
  • Kinwarestan 1196 Cur
  • Kynewerston 1324 FA
  • Kynwarston 1522 SR

Etymology

'Cyneweard 's stone.' The site of the meeting-place was at or near Kinwardstone Fm infra 338.