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.

Gratton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Gratton

Historical Forms

Gratune 1086 DB

Gratton(e) 1159–66,c.1200 Darley c.1265 BelCh

Gretton' Hy3 Darley 1343 Woll 1597 Lanc

Greeton 1535 Val

Etymology

'Great farm', v. grēat , tūn ; cf. Gratton (PN D 86).

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name