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 .