page_title: East Chinnock
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: East Chinnock / History
caption_attribution_description: English: S 1539 Will of Wynflæd, circa AD 950 (11th-century copy, BL Cotton Charters viii. 38)
context_page_description: East Chinnock is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the A30 road 4 miles south west of Yeovil in the South Somerset district. The parish has a population of 479.
context_section_description: The origin of the name Chinnock is uncertain.  It may be derived from the Old English cinu meaning ravine or cinn meaning a chin shaped hill, with the addition of ock meaning little.  An alternative derivation may be an old hill-name of Celtic origin.
  The Chinnocks were held as one estate in Saxon times by Wynflaed under Shaftesbury Abbey but by the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 East Chinnock was a separate estate.  It was granted to Robert, Count of Mortain and his son William gave it to Montacute Priory who held it until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, when it was bought by the Portmans of Orchard Portman.
caption: Will of Wynflæd, circa AD 950, mentions land at Cinnuc (11th-century copy, British Library Cotton Charters viii. 38)[2]
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