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.

Rutton Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Whimple

Etymology

The forms are too late for certainty but it may well be that we have here land added to a weak plural of the OE  word ryt discussed under Rutt supra 286.