Murton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Appleby St Michael
Historical Forms
- Morton 1235 FF 1279 Ass19 1292 1547 Rent32
- Moreton 1315 Ipm 1369 Cliff
- Murton 1376,1377 Pat 1392 Cl 1704 Terr
- -als. Mooreton 1613 FF
Etymology
'Moorland farmstead', v. mōr , tūn . On the later form Mur - cf. Phonol. §15.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Crow Wood
- Roger Head
- St Giles Chapel
- Westley Bank
- Brackenthwaite
- Great & Little Carrath
- Clint Hill
- Cockley Gill
- Cringley Hill & Hole
- Deep Gill
- Delfekirk Scar
- Ellerholme
- Fell Dikes
- Fisher Sike
- Flakebridge Wood
- Fox Yards
- Lycum Sike
- Master Sike
- Mell Fell
- Middle Tongue
- Moley Hill
- Murton Beck, Crag, Fell, Hall, Herds, & Pike
- Plump Hill
- Potts
- Rayton Sike
- Red Brow
- Scordale Beck
- The Seat
- Slape Stones
- Whelpside
- Redlands Bank
- Ash Bank
- Burnt Crag
- Gaskill Tarn
- Mason Holes
- Stannerstones Sike
- Brockham
- Brockham Wood
- Chapel Dub, Hill, & Wood
- Crackenthorpe Hall
- Amber Hill
- Augill
- Bankend
- Bankwood
- Black Hill
- Bongate Moor
- Brackenber Flodders & Moor
- Frith Beck & Lane
- Green Bank
- Hag Lane
- Harbourflatt
- High & Low Hause, Hause Harrows
- Hazelber
- High Clints
- Hilton Beck & Fell
- Humphrey Hill
- Hunter Howe
- Langtonfield
- Low Barn
- Lowfield
- Southfield
- Stoneriggs
- Stow Gill
- Sweety Briggs
- Swindale Crag & Edge
- Swine Gill
- Thornarbour Scar
- Thornless Hill
- Thornybank Wood
- High & Low Trough
- Well Ho
- Gaylock Pools
- Arnside Rake
- Broom Hill
- Gasdale
- Marn Gill
- Standards Fold
- White Mines