The story
From either the Old English personal name Wine, which is a byname from wine (“friend”), or winn (“pasture”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7810). Full definition →
From either the Old English personal name Wine, which is a byname from wine (“friend”), or winn (“pasture”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.