Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Barkeston' 13 Barl Ed1 MC 1203 Cur m13(Ed1),lHy3(Ed1) Barl

• Barkestona 1238–45 RAii

• Barkeston c1250–60 ib

• Barcston' lHy3 Barl Ed1

• Barketon' m13(Ed1),1282 Barl 1291 Pat

• in parva carletun' que vocatur Barkeston' Ed1 Barl

• Barkton' iuxta Norycarleton' Ed1 Barl

• Barthon iuxta sudcarltun' Ed1 Barl

• Barthon by Suthcarleton 1327 Ch

• Carleton Barton 1431 FA

• Barton by Northcarleton 1447 Pat

• Barton by North carlton 1451 Cl

• Lytyll Carleton nexte Carleton Pannell otherwayes callyd Barton 1549 CA

Etymology

'Bark's farmstead, village', v. tūn . The first el. is the Scand pers.n. ON  Bǫrkr , a name which is well attested in Iceland, but hardly at all elsewhere (see Lind 186–7), though a weak ODan  Barki is on record (DGP I, 96). The same name also occurs in Barkston (Threo Wapentake Kest, DLPN 9) and in the Leicestershire name Barkestone (Framland Hundred, PN Lei 2 199 f.). See also below, under Little Carlton.