Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• oþ hore tuninge gemære, ⁊lang hore tuninge gemæres 946 Harl(S519) 14

• Hortun, (to) hortune 1033 SherC(S969) 12

• (æt) Hortune 1061 12 ib

• Hortune 1086 DB

• Hortuna e12 SherC

• Hortona(m) 1125(12),1145(12) ib

• Horton(e) 1212 P 1221 Cur 1231 Cl 1236 FF

• Horton cum Cnolton 1340 NI

Etymology

'Dirty or muddy farm', from horu and tūn , a common p.n., cf. Knowlton in Woodlands par. infra . The reference to 'the boundary of the men of Horton' in 946 occurs in the bounds of the Anglo-Saxon estate of Didlington (in Chalbury par. supra ), v. -ingas (gen.pl. -inga ), (ge)mǣre. The bounds of the Anglo-Saxon estate of Hortun are given in 1033 (12) SherC (S 969) and in n.d. (12) ib (f. 24v).