Maids' Moreton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Maids' Moreton
Historical Forms
- Mortone 1086 DB
- Mourton by Buckingham 1281 Ipm
- Murton 1325 BM
- Moorton 1376 Cl 1392 IpmR
- Maidenes Morton 1480–96 Linc
- Morton beside B. 1491 IpmR
- Made Morton 1546 LP
- Maydes Morton Eliz ChancP
- Maid smorton (sic) 1584 Archd
Etymology
'Farm on the mor or swampy ground.' Maids ' from the tradition that the church was built in the 15th cent. by two maiden ladies of the Peyvre family (L. iii. 40).