English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Upton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Upton

Historical Forms

  • Uptune 958 BCS1029 14th
  • Upetun 1086 DB
  • Uppeton 1167,1194 P
  • Upton' (Archiepiscopi) 1185 ib
  • Upton'juxta Suwell 1305 Ass
  • Upton'on Hill 1586 Wills
  • Huptun 1235 Fees

Etymology

'Higher farm,' v. uppe , tun . The centre of the village is on the summit of a low hill. Upton was granted with Southwell to the Archbishop of York by King Eadwig (BCS 1029).

Places in the same Parish