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==Etymology== The village's name comes from the [[Old English]] ''*sumpt'' + ''-ingas'', meaning "(settlement of) the dwellers at the marsh".<ref>{{cite book |last=Mills |first=A. D. |year=1997 |orig-year=1991 |title=A Dictionary of English Place Names |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=302 |isbn=0192831313 }}</ref> Its earliest recorded form is ''Suntinga'', in a document of 956, but [[Domesday Book]] (1086) renders the name as ''Sultinges'', its Norman-speaking clerks being unfamiliar with the consonant-cluster ''-mpt''. As the [[Toponymy|toponymist]] [[Adrian Room]] noted, there is no obviously marshy land there nowadays, but it is low-lying and near the sea.<ref>{{cite book |last=Room |first=Adrian |year=1989 |orig-year=1988 |title=Dictionary of Place-Names in the British Isles |location=London |publisher=Bloomsbury |page=329 |isbn=0747505055 }}</ref>
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