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.

Adwalton

Early-attested site in the Parish of Birstall

Historical Forms

  • Athelwaldon 1202 FF
  • Adtheoldtun 16 BM
  • Adwalton 1208 Cur 1456 DodsN 1478 YDii 1504 FF 1710 WRC
  • Adwelton 1208 Cur
  • Adwolton 1526 FF
  • Aderton 1647 YDr
  • Atherton 1675 Og
  • Adderton 1739 LdsM

Etymology

'Athelwald's farmstead', from the OE  pers.n. Æpelwald and tūn; the pers.n. has the uninflected form (cf. EPN i, 158 s.v. -es 2 ).

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name