Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Mortunia 12 Tab

• Mortune 1287 Court

• Mortona 1185–90 Facs

• Morton 13 AddCh 1440 Cl

• Morton iuxta Newbold 1316 Plea

• Magna Morton sub Lymam 1289 Court 1344 Plea

• Great Morton 1350 AD

• Mikel Morton 1349 Plea

• Mykel Morton 1385 IpmR

• Mortone 1316 ChRR

• Moreton 1265–91 Chest 17

• Moreton Hall 1724 NotCestr

• Mykill Moreton 1384 Orm2

• Magna Moreton 1315 AddCh

• Moorton 1309 ChRR

• Great Moorton 1350,1354 AD

• Mourton 1313 BW 1370,1373 AddCh

• 'the peel and the mote of Great Moreton' 1354 AD(C.6348)

Etymology

'Farm at a marsh', v. mōr 1 , tūn , grēat , micel , cf. Little Moreton Hall 306infra , The Lyme 12, Newbold 286supra . There is mention of 'the peel and the mote of Great Moreton ' in 1354 AD (C.6348), v. pēl (cf. 218supra , Peel 288supra , 327 infra , and NED s.v. peel ), mote .