English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Halton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Halton

Historical Forms

  • Healtun c.1033 KCD1321 13th
  • Haltone 1086 DB 1195 Cur(P)
  • Halkhton 1237–40 Fees
  • Haulton 1766 J

Etymology

v. healh , tun . The sense of healh here is aptly fixed by Lipscomb (ii. 319) who says that Halton is situated in a sandy track on the side of the Chiltern Hills.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site