The story
- Old English · inherited fromĊēolmundes“Ceolmund's”
- Middle English · inherited fromChelmundestone
- English todayCholmondeston
From Middle English Chelmundestone (in the Domesday Book), from Old English Ċēolmundes (“Ceolmund's”) + -tūn (“farmstead, town”). Cf. Cholmondeley and Chulmleigh.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.