Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Fiskerton 664 S 1146 Dugdi 1203–6 RAi c1212 RAx 1226 DC 1245–6 RRG 1251 Ch 1275 Tax 1275–6 RH ?1280–90 QW 1281 RAviii 1285 FA 1316 Pap 1328 NI 1341 Pat 1341 FA 1428,1431 Cl 1445 Pap 1454 LER 1576 Saxton 1576 Speed 1610

• Fiskertuna 1060 S

• Fiskertune 1060 HC c1160 S EdConf Dugdi m12 RAix EdConf m12 1227–30

• Fiskerton' c1175–80 RAix 1177–78,1180–81 P 1202 Ass c1202 RAix 1202,1204,1210,1211,1214 P 1203–5 RAi 1218 RAiii 1220–30 DC c1250 RAx 1253–8 RAix 1254 ValNor c1260 RAix c1279 RRG 1327,1332 SR 1373,1374 Peace

• Fiskertona 1178–9 P 1281 ChronPetro 1391 HPFees

• Fiskertun lHy2 RAix l12 RAiv c1190 RAx 1212 Fees c1221 RAix

• Fiskertun' c1200–12,1254–7 RAx

• Fiscartune, Fiscartone 1086 DB

• Fiscarton' 1191,1192,1193 P

• Fiscertun 12 HC

• Fiskarton 1189 Ch 1332

• Fiskartun' c1217—19 RAx

• Fischortune c1115 LS

• Fischertona c1128 ChronPetro 12

• Fischertune c1128 12 ib

• Fischertun' a1217 RAx ?c1212

• Fischerton 1227 Ch

• Fyskerton 1214–22 CNat m14 FA 1284–5 Pat 1295 Ipm 1496 LNQ 1502 Ipm 1526 Sub 1528 NCWills 1535 VE

• Fiskirton' 1221 DC 1274 RRG

• Fiskirtun' c1221 DC

• Fiskirtona 1231 PetLN

• Feskerton' 1242–3 Fees

• Fiscreton 1289 Pat

• Fiskyrton 1387 Pat 1402 FA

• Fyskyrton 1396 Peace

• Fyskerton' 1408 RRep

• Fyskerton 1536,1541,1548 PetLD

• Fyskarton 1535 VE 1563 Pat

• Fisherton Eliz ChancP 1695 Morden

• Fishkerton 1653 WillsPCC

Etymology

'The farmstead, village of the fishermen', v. DLPN 44. The first el. is OE  fiscere m. 'fisherman' rather than the corresponding ON  fiskari.The pronunciation with /sk/ is the result of Scandinavian influence which arrested the normal OE development of Germanic [sk] > [ʃ] in a palatal environment. It is not clear whether we are concerned here with an original genitival formation OE  *fisceratūn 'farmstead, village of the fishermen', as is suggested by DLPN 44, or a simple compound *fiscere - tūn , which is morphologically identical with Modern German Fischerdorf 'fishing village'. Fiskerton is situated on the north bank of the Witham and the fishing activity referred to in the name of the village would have been carried out in that river.

A number of the field- and minor names were supplied to KC by Mrs Sally Scott of Fiskerton. These were taken from the following sources and are included in the listings below: 1712, 1724, 1762 Terriers (checked by JC); 1824, 1847, 1850, c1850, 1859, 1860MCB (Manor Court Books (1–7) for the Manor of Fiskerton in Northamptonshire Record Office); 1853CCPet (Peterborough Survey of Monastery Lands in Lincolnshire , the Survey and Schedule held by the Church Commissioners, London: the Manor of Fiskerton was given to Abbey of Peterborough by King Edward the Confessor and later transferred by Henry VIII to the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough); 1865CCP & S (Plan and Schedule on the transfer of the Peterborough Chapter estate to the Bishop of Carlisle by Order in Council 1865, copy at Church Commissioners, London).