Drayton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Drayton
Historical Forms
- Dreitun 1041×57 HCand m.12
- Dreiton' 1186,1187 P 1231 Fine 1209×35 RHug
- Dreyton' Hy3 Crox
- Draitone e.12,13 Peake
- Draitun a.1150 ib
- Draiton' 1163,1166 P 1384 Peake 1394 Ipm
- ~ iuxta Eston l.13 Peake 1308 Ass
- Draitona 12(p),e.13 Peake a.1219 RHug
- Draytone m.13 HCand l.13,13,1347 Peake 1391×1405 HP
- Drayton p.1150,12,e.13 Peake
- ~Brynghirst 1381 ib
- ~ iuxta Brynghurst 1453 ib
- ~ iuxta Wyland 1422 ib
- ~ iuxta Wyland 1422 ib
- ~ iuxta Wiland 1466 ib
- Draython' e.13,1433 ib
- Draytune e.13 ib
- Draton 1529 Peake
Etymology
'The farmstead, village at the steep slope where hauling is necessary', v. dræg , tūn . The township is at the foot of a hill which rises evenly 250 ft in a half mile. The modern road from Drayton to Nevill Holt takes this gradient directly in two straight stages and probably follows the line of the early trackway. The suffixes refer to neighbouring Great Easton and Bringhurst and to the river Welland.