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.

Merton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Merton

Historical Forms

Merton(a) 1086 DB

Mereton 1175,1196 P

Marton 1428 FA 1675 Ogilby

Martyn 1535 VE

Merton vulgo Martin 1765 D

Etymology

v. s. n. Peters Marland supra 97.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site