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.

Stourton Barton

Early-attested site in the Parish of Thelbridge

Historical Forms

  • Stordet(h)on 1242 Fees774 1428 FA
  • Strodeton 1303 FA
  • Sturdeston, Strotheton 1374 IpmR
  • Stourton al. Stourditon 1687 Recov

Etymology

This may be from OE  strōda - tūn , 'farm of the marshy places,' with common metathesis of r .So also Wallenberg in StudNP 2, 96.