Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Eggirton e13 AddCh c.1300 Chol

• Egirthon 1272–1307 AddCh

• Hegirton 1295 Vern

• Egirton 1314 Chol 1324 ib

• Egyrtone 1333 Dav

• Egyrton 1354 Chol

• Eggerton 1259 Plea 1591 AD

• Heggerton 1312 Chol

• Egerton 1282 Court

• Egerdon 1283 Cl

• Egertun 1429 AD

• Hegertona 1295 Sheaf 17

• Egerton Green 1750 Chol

• Egerton Bank & Egerton Hall 1831 Bry

• Edgerton c.1582 AD

Etymology

From tūn 'an enclosure, a farmstead', with banke , grēne 2 , hall .The first el. is probably a pers.n. but the form is obscure. It could be the OE  pers.n. Ecgheard or Ecghere (cf. DEPN), uninflected, or the gen.sg. Ecgware of the OE  fem. pers.n. Ecgwaru . However, Dr von Feilitzen may well be right in taking Egerton as analogous with Tibberton Wo 170 (Tidbrihtincgtun > DB Tidberton ), i.e. as a reduced form of an -ingtun p.n. upon the pers.n. Ecghere , v. -ing-.