Stonehenge

Meanings

1. An ancient group of standing stones on Salisbury Plain in Amesbury parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1242).
2. A number of localities elsewhere:
3. A rural municipality in south Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Stonehenge No. 73.
4. A town in Saint James parish, Jamaica.
5. A locality in Australia:
6. A locality in the Glen Innes Severn council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
7. An outback town in the Shire of Barcoo, Queensland.
8. A rural locality in Toowoomba Region, Queensland.
9. A rural locality in Southern Midlands council area, Tasmania.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English Stonhenge, from ston (“stone”) + henge (“hinge”) or hengen ("hanging", but only attested as "imprisonment"). More at Stonehenge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia The failure of /ɛnd͡ʒ/ to regularly raise to /ɪnd͡ʒ/, as in hinge, singe < Middle English henge, sengen, is probably due to the influence of the local dialect; compare the forms /ɛnd͡ʒ/, /sɛnd͡ʒ/ "hinge, singe" attested for the early 20th-century dialect of Pewsey, Wiltshire, approximately 18.5 kilometres (11.5 miles) from Stonehenge.