Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Ministretone 1086 DB

• Minstertona 1130 P

• Minstrestuna 12th Dane

• Minstirton, Minsterton 1209 FF

• Minstreton 1219 ib

• Mensterton 1216 PatR

• Menstreton 1267 Ebor

• Misona 1165 P

• Misterton t.Hy2 Ch 1316 Dugdvi 1205 Cur 1207

• Mistreton 1230 P 1266 Pat 1276 RH

• Mistirton 1242 Fees

• Mustreton 1196 Cur

• Mosterton 1204 FF

Etymology

The first element is clearly OE  mynster . This word was used indifferently in early times to denote a monastery or a church served by a community of secular clergy. As there is neither record nor tradition of any monastery at Misterton, mynster probably bore the second sense in this name.