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.

Horton

Early-attested site in the Parish of Witton Chapelry & Weaverham

Historical Forms

  • Horton c.1200 Tab
  • Horton iuxta Hertford 1361 ChFor
  • Horton in Hertford 1381 Orm2
  • Horton and Hertford 1558 ib
  • Hertford alias Herford cum Horton 1581 ChRR
  • Horton alias Hartford 1639 Orm2
  • Hortona 13 Tab
  • Orton 1541 Orm2
  • Hortona alias Horton alias Hertford 1584 ChRR
  • Horton Meadow 17 Chol
  • Horton Field, Big Horton & Little Horton 1845 TA
  • Horston c.1260(p),1436 Tab

Etymology

'Dirty farm' or 'muck-yard', v. horu , tūn . The rare Hors - form appears in seventeenth-century copies only, and is obviously erroneous. The site is the park of Hartford Manor.