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.

Trotton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Trotton

Historical Forms

  • Traitone 1086 DB
  • Trayton 1395 IpmR
  • Tratinton t.Hy1 Durf
  • Traditona 12th Ord
  • Traditone, Tradytone 1296,1327 SR
  • Tratton 1316,1428 FA 1441 Cicestr
  • Traton 1509 LP
  • Tratton al. Tradyngton 1421,1442,1456 IpmR
  • Trotton 1545,1558 Wills

Etymology

Professor Ekwall would take the first element here to be a lost OE  trædding from a form træddian for the more usual treddian , 'to tread.' Such a word would mean 'stepping-stones' or the like and refer perhaps to some passage of the Rother here.v. tun .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name