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.

Moreton

Early-attested site in the Parish of Gnosall

Historical Forms

  • Mortone 1086 DB
  • Morton 1242 Fees 1285,1316 FA 1339 Banco 1397 Misc 1347 FF 1560 Bodl 1652 ParlSurv
  • Moreton 1428 FA 1553 Bodl 1586 PCC 1683 ParReg 1833 O

Etymology

'The farmstead by the marshland', v. mōr 1 , tūn .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement