Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• æt nyðtune (sic) 972 BCS1278 11th

• mytun 972 BCS1279

• Mitune 1086 DB

• Myton(e), Miton(e) c.1100–6 YCh 1130–5 YCh

• Mitton 1247 Pap 1344 Ebor 1406 Test

• Mytoun 1375 Barbour'sBrucexvii.1

Etymology

'Farm at the confluence' v. myðe , tun . Myton is half a mile from the meeting of the river Swale and the Ure, and the site of the White Battle in 1319, mentioned by Barbour, is said to have been at the confluence, on the land between the two rivers.