Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Oulstuna 1086 DB

• Outune c.1145 CAcre

• Oueltune 1198 FF

• Oulton 1219 Fees 1278to1382 FF 1302to1428 FA 1345 Cl 1362 AD 1475–85 ECP

• Oultone 1257,1269,1286 Ass

• Oweltona 1225 Bract

• Owelton 1225 Cur 1226–36 Walsing 1250 Ass 1251,1266 Pat 1253 Cl 1254–75 Val Ed1,1334 Ct 1369 Ipm

• Ouelton 1250 Ass

• Oweltone 1257(p),1269,1286 Ass

• Ouletone 1257 Ass

• Oweltune 1260–70 LothianMSS

• Olton 1267 FF 1324 NoD 1341 Pat 1346 Cl

• Oultona 1276 Walsing

• Ovelton 1291 Tax

• Owleton 1427 Ct

• Owlton 1444 FF 1535 VE

Etymology

'Ouðulf 's tūn'. The first element is no doubt a Scand pers.n., OWScand  Auðúlfr , OSwed  Ødhulf , well attested in English sources, e.g. on coins (Ouðulf ) and in Domesday Book (v. Ekwall DEPN, Feilitzen 170, Insley 83). Feilitzen (§ 109) gives examples of loss of intervocalic ð .