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.

Swanborough Hundred

Hundred in the County of Wiltshire

Historical Forms

  • Swaneberga hundred 1086 ExonDB
  • Suanesbergahđr 1167 P
  • Swaneberge 1196 Cur
  • Swaneborge 1198 Abbr
  • Swanebergh 1227 Fees
  • Swaneberwe 1249 Ass
  • Swaneburwe 1305 Ass
  • hundred of Swannebergh alias Stodfold alias Rughbergh 1476 Pat

Etymology

The meeting-place was at Swanborough Tump in Manningford Abbots infra 320. For Stodfold , cf. Studfold Hundred supra 311.