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Arrington - Origin of Name
Aerningetun (Domesday Book 1086)
Arrington can be fairly certainly explained as 'the farm of Earn(a)=s people='. The Earningas were a group or tribe of people who lived in Armingford [the ancient district roughly covering Arrington, East Hatley, Steeple Morden, Royston, Melbourn, Whaddon and points between] in saxon and medieval times.
The earliest known forms of 'Arrington' are Earnningtone (in an Anglo-Saxon will of c950), Oarningetune and Erlingtona (in documents allied to the Domesday Survey) and Erlingtona or Aerningetun (in the Domesday Book itself, 1086). Similar -ingatun names are found elsewhere in South Cambridgeshire and are usually associated with the earliest period of English settlement.
By the thirteenth century Arrington had virtually acquired its modern form as Aring(e)ton(e).
The anglo-saxon name for the Roman road 'that passed through the land of the Earningas' was 'Earninga Straete' (1012). This became Ermine Street. Thus 'Arrington' and 'Ermine Street' are anglo-saxon names that share a similar origin.
(Steve Odell)
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This page last updated on: Tuesday 8 August, 2006.
Council Meeting:
The next Parish Council Meeting will be at 7.30pm on Monday 17 September 2007.
War Memorial:
The men and woman behind the names on the Roll of Honour [more..]
Christian Aid:
The amount collected for Christian Aid was £232.62
Churchyard:
The next churchyard working party will be on
22 September 2007