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.

Milton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Milton

Historical Forms

  • (fram) Middeltune c.975 ASCh 975 LibEl 12th ElyM c.1060 14th
  • Middeltun(a) 1086 InqEl 1253 Pat
  • Middeltona 1086 InqEl
  • Middeltone 1086 DB
  • Middelton(e) 1196 P 1399 Pat
  • Middleton(e), Myddleton(e) 1227 Ch 1274 FF
  • Myddleton juxta Landbeach 1325 ib
  • Middilton(e), Myddelton(e), Myddylton(e) 1260 FF 1446 et freq
  • Mideltune c.1050 KCD907 13th
  • Midelton 1232 Cl 1364 Pat
  • Midilton(e) 1261 Cl 1309 Ipm 1346 FA
  • Mydelton 1341 NI
  • Meddelton' 1235 Cl
  • Med(d)ilton 14th Cai 1516 Milton
  • Milton 1275 RH
  • Mylton 1436 Pat 1570 SR
  • Melton t.Hy8,1559 Rental 1636 BedL

Etymology

'The middle farm,' v. tūn . Middle possibly because situated between Impington and Fen Ditton.

Places in the same Parish