Monkton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Monkton
Historical Forms
- Muneketon 1244 FF
- Monekatone 1279 Ipm
- Moneketone 1279,1325 Ipm
- Monekedon 1283 Pat
- Monketon 1284 FA 1330 Exon
- Monketon juxta Honyton 1455 FF
- Munkton t.Ed1 IpmR
Etymology
'Monks' farm,' v. tun . The parish was formerly a chapelry of Colyton which was royal demesne TRE (DB). The connexion of the place with monks must, therefore, as in the case of Monk Okehampton supra 153, go back to some early period of Anglo-Saxon history.