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.

Marton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Swine

Historical Forms

  • Meretone 1086 DB
  • Marton(a) 1155–7 YCh 1828 Langd
  • Est Marton(a) 1401 YI
  • Marton(a) in Holdernes 1504 Test
  • Merton(a) 1210–20 Melsa 1297 LS
  • Est Merton(a) 1221–35 Melsa
  • Merton(a) in Holdernesse 1291 YI 1349 Ipm

Etymology

'Farmstead near the pool,' v. mere , tun . In some of the older Marton forms mere may have been influenced by OScand  marr 'pool, marsh,' or may go back to an ONb  syncopated mærtun .Cf. Marton, Marfleet infra 104, 213 where similar influence is noticed.