Barton Turf
Major Settlement in the Parish of Barton Turf
Historical Forms
- Bertuna 1086 DB
- Berton 1220to1413 FF 1315 AD 1316to1428 FA 1327 Banco
- Bertone c.1200 Holme 1257,1269,1286 Ass 1330 SR
- Berton' 1223 Cur 1242–3 Fees 1254 Val
- Berthone 1257 Ass
- Barton 1316,1428 FA
- Berton Turfe 1394 Pat
- Barton Turff(e) 1508 1509–10,1513 SP 1620 NfA
Etymology
OE bere-tūn 'barley farm', i.e. an outlying farm on which corn was grown or stored. The distinguishing epithet turf does not seem to have been added until the late 14th cent. Perhaps turf was cut here to an unusual extent. There is another Barton in Nf, Barton Bendish in Clacklose Hundred. The church is dedicated to St Michael. Two churches are mentioned in DB, the only evidence for the village possessing a second church. One of them must have gone down in the 12th or 13th century (EAA 51: 10, 49, 53).
In the reign of Edward the Confessor, the principal part of Barton was a manor of the abbey of St Benet of Holme. Blomefield (XI 3) remarks briefly that in 14 Edward I (1285–86) “the manor of the abbot was called Kybald 's ”.