Black Bourton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Black Bourton
Historical Forms
- Bortone 1086 DB
- Bvrtone 1086 DB
- Burtona 1122–33 OxonCh 1385 Cl
- Burgton' 1268 Ass
- Abbodesbourton 1323 Cl
- Bourton 1360 Ipm 1385 Cl 1526 LS
- Bourtone 1433 Os
- Boorton 1526 LS
Etymology
v. burhtūn . The Abbot is the Abbot of Osney: v. Os iv, 475 ff. for the possessions of Osney in this town. E. Carleton Williams, Companion into Oxfordshire (London 1935), p. 240, suggests that 'Black' was prefixed because “the land belonged to Osney Abbey, and the Austin Canons, in their black habits, worked the Manor Farm.”