Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Wavretone 1086 DB

• Waveretone 1096–1101 Chest 1150

• Waveretona 1150 ib

• Wavertone 1096–1101 1280 ib

• Wavertona 1271–4 ib

• Wavertun 1185 Facs 1248 Chest

• Waverton 1188–91,1249–65 1260 Court

• Waverton iuxta Stapilford 1281 Court

• Waverton iuxta Hatton 1315 Plea 1319 ib

• Weverton 1272–1307 Orm2

• Waruerton 1325 Chol

• Warton 1363 ChRR 1386 Sheaf 1502 Plea 1620,1671,1690 Sheaf

• Wareton 1475 Outl 1595 ChRR

• Wharton 1646 Sheaf

• Waverton vulgo Warton 1671 ib

Etymology

'Farm by a swaying tree', v. wæfre , tūn , cf. Wharton 2213, with which this p.n. is sometimes confused, e.g. in 1281 'the defendants said there were two Wavertons and claimed to know which was intended', Court 35. It is confused with Weaverham 3205, in Hatton Church by Waverham 17 (1724) NotCestr, v. ChetOS viii362.