Moreton Morrell
Major Settlement in the Parish of Moreton Morrell
Historical Forms
- Mortone 1086 DB
- Morton(e) 1235 Fees 1535 VE
- Sale Morton 1279 Nott
- Moreton juxta Warwick 1283 Wigorn
- Morton Trimenel 1290 ib
- Morton Daubeneye 1293 1308 FF
- Merehull 1279 Nott 1316 FA
- Merhulle 1313 FF 1316 Cl
- Merhull 1332 SR
- Morton Merehill 1285 Ass
- Morton(e) and Merhulle 1316 Cl 1327 SR
- Mor(e)ton Mer(e)hull 1322 Pat 1336 ADiii 1656 Dugdale
- Morton Merell 1514 KnowleG
- Merrell et Moreton 1552 Pat
- Trimenel in 1307 (FF)
Etymology
Moreton is 'marsh farm.' Morrell is 'boundary hill,' v. (ge)mære. It lies just within the parish. “Moreton -Morell , for so it is vulgarly called, but more truly Morton -Merhull , in regard that the town is divided into two parts, whereof the one…is called Morton from the low moorish ground adjoining thereto, and the other…Merehull ”(Dugdale 390). John Sale held land here in 1279 and Nicholas Trimenel in 1307 (FF ). The Trimenel family are found in the neighbouring Atherstone in 1332 (SR).