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.

Shelton

Early-attested site in the Parish of Marston Moretaine

Historical Forms

  • Es(s)eltone 1086 DB
  • Sheltune 1197 FF
  • Selton 1202 Ass
  • Shelton 1227,1240 Ass
  • Schelton 1262 FF

Etymology

This has the same history as Shelton supra 19.