Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Setun 1146×51 Guis

• Setone 1189 DST

• villata de Setone 1235×6,1242×3 Ass

• Setona 1189×99 Ch 1318

• setona 1242×3 Ass

• Seton a1335 Spec

• Seton c.1200 FPD c.1300 GD 1350 Rot 1358×9etfreqto1510 IPM 1369 GD

• Seton' c.1280(p)etfreqto1386(p) Spec 1351 Lond

• Seeton 1549 IPM

• Seyton 1549 ib

• Seaton 1610 GD

• Seton Carrou 1311×12 GD

• Seton' Carrw 1324(p),c.1325,c.1350(p) Spec

• Seton Carrw c.1330 ib

• Seton' Carrow c.1325,1345(p) Spec

• Seton Carrowe 1337 IPM 1343 Pont 1345 RPD 1379 IPM 1567

• Seton Carrow infra Wapentag Sadb'g' 1432 Ct 1433 ChancH

• pro warda castri Seton' Karrow 1382 Hatf

• Seton Karrowe 1425×6etfreqto1559 IPM

• Seton Karrow 1550 ib

• Seton Kerrowe 1419 GT 1439etfreqto1530 IPM

• Seaton Kerrowe 1571 ib

• Seaton Karewe 1559 GD

• Seaton Carrowe 1567 IPM

• Seaton Carew 1605 IPM 1691 EnclA 1791 Hud 1717

• Seaton next the Sea alias Seaton Carew 1614 IPM

• Seaton near the sea otherwise Seaton Carew 1717,1726 Hud

• Seton Carew 1622 IPM

• Seaton Carewe 1635 ib

• Seaton als Seaton Carew 1706 Rob

• Seton next Stranton 1502 IPM

Etymology

'Settlement, farm, estate by the sea', OE  sǣ + tūn. Identical with Seaton Durham NZ 3949 and Cumberland, Devon, Northumberland etc.The manorial addition refers to the family of Robert de Carew who held lands in Owton belonging to his fee of Seaton in the reign of Henry I (1100×35).