Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Bertintune 1086 DB

• Berthenton 1199–1216 Tab

• Berthinton 1209 ib

• Berthynton 1302 ChF

• Berthynton iuxta Duderton 1356 Plea

• Berthingnton 13 Sheaf 17

• Berthyngnton 1353 BPR

• Berthuntun 1324 Tab

• Barthington 1537 Plea

• Barthynton 1551 Sheaf

• Berdintona 1170 Facs

• Bardinton 1284 VR 1662

• Berthreton 1180–1208 Sheaf 1580

• Bertherton 1180–1208 Orm2 1666 VR 1281 BPR 1338 1358

• Berthirton 1329 ChRR

• Berterton E1 Orm2 1666

• Berterton iuxta Doutton 1330 Vern

• Barterton c.1440 Surv 1534 Chol 1860 White

• Bertrinton 1285 Tab

• Berthiton 1317 City

Etymology

This place and Barnton 105supra are frequently mentioned in early records, and as the manorial interests mostly devolved upon the Dutton family of Dutton, they are not easy to separate. Leycester (Orm2 i638) in 1666 took the two instances of Bertintune in DB as moieties of Barnton 'unless the one of these should be meant for Barterton' (i.e. Bartington), whereas Tait (ChetNS lxxv211) takes them both as Bartington. The majority of the Bertherton spellings (often mistaken, in printed calendars, as also the Berthyn (g )-, -in (g )- spellings, for Berch -) refer to Bartington, and this place seems never to have been called Bern (e )ton , Barn (e )ton . The two places are distinguished by different forms of one p.n., as if originally parts of one manor. The p.n. is probably 'Beornðrȳð's farm', from the OE  fem. pers.n. Beornðrȳð and tūn , alternating with -ingtūn . The various forms of the p.n. are due to loss of interconsonantal -n - in -rnð -, dissimilatory loss of -r - in -ðrȳð , and variations between the full pers.n. and a shortened form before -ingtūn . Cf. Batherton 325infra .