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.

Westerton

Early-attested site in the Parish of East and West Ardsley

Etymology

Westerton, 1379 PT (p), 1459, 1462 Test ii, 1539 WillY, 1546 YChantet freq to 1614 FF. 'More westerly village', v. westerra , tūn . This was doubtless originally an alternative name for West Ardsley supra which survived only as the name of a township. On this kind of name substitution cf. Mickletown 127supra .