Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Suanetone 1047–70 (13 Sawyer 1499) ASWills 35

• Suanetunam 1086 DB

• Swaneton 1198,1200 FF

• Suaneton 1200 Cur

• Suanethon 1233 Fees

• Svanetone 1257 Ass

• Swanton 1275 RH 1302,1346 FA 1330 Ipm

• Swanton (Mareschal) 1334 FF

• Hungreswanton 1286 FF

• Hungry Swanton 1320 Walsing

• Hungri Swanton 1342 AD

• Swanton Nowers 1361 Ipm 1446 FF 1477 AD

• Swanton Norys 1421 FF

• Swanton Nevers 1535 VE

• Nowerswanton 1385 FF

Etymology

From OE  swāna -tūn , 'the farm or village of the herdsmen', v. OE  swān1 and tūn . The name is found three times as a major name in Norfolk and once in Kent. The addition Novers is from Noyers-Bocage in Normandy. “Vulgarly called Hungry Swanton” (NfT 792).