Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Hotone, Hotun 1086 DB

• Hoton(a), Hotun(a) 1090–1100 YChvi 12 RegAlbiii,26 1100–8etfreqin12 YChvi 1148,1156 YCh179,186 Steph Pat 1464 1204 YChviii a.1218 Fees c.1219 YChant 1546

• Hoton Painel, Hoton Paynel(l) 1109–40 YChvi 1229 Ebor 1240 FF 1460 Pat

• Hoton Paynel 1303 Pat 1314 WCR

• Hoton Paynill 1303 KF

• Hoton Pannell 1406 WillY 1511 FF

• Hoton Panell 1409 DiocV 1492 Testiv

• Hottune, Hotton' 1202–8 Ass

• Hottune Painell' 1193,1196 P

• Houton' Painelli 1194 P

• Hocton 1196 P

• Hoghton 1531 FF

• Hoton super Montem 1511 FF

• Howghton upon the hill 1531 FF

• Hooton Pannell 1539 Testvi 1597 SessnR

• Hooton Pagnel 1822 Langd

• Hewton Pannall 1540 WillY

• Hutton Pannel(l) 1594 NCWills 1764 PRWath

Etymology

'Farm on the spur of land', v. hōh , tūn , a common type of northern p.n.; cf. Hooton Roberts 124, Hooton Levitt 136, Slade Hooton 142infra , all in this neighbourhood. It was occasionally distinguished from these as Hooton on the Hill , but usually the affix is that of the great Painel , Pagnel family in whose fee it was from the later eleventh century (v. YCh vipassim and many of the sources cited above, such as 12RegAlb iii, 26, 1204 Kirkst 80, 1240 FF, etc.).