Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Monecheton(e), Monechetune 1086 DB c.1090 Dugdiv 1100–8 YChvi

• Munechatun 1175–86 ib

• Munekton 1227 YDvii

• Muneketon, Munekethona 1230 Font 1239 FF

• Moncatona 1135–40 YChvi

• Munchetuna a.1160 ib

• Munkinton 1190,1191 P

• Munkiton 1202–8 Ass

• Munketon, Monketon 12 1202,1230 FF 1262 YDii 1278 YI 1428 FA

• Monketon super Moram 1302 Ebor

• More Monketon 1402 YI 1439 YDvii

• Munkton, Monkton super Moram 1198 Fount 1316 YDii

• Mor(e) Monkton 1398 WillY 1409 YDii 1567 TudPD

• Mure Monkton 1431 WillY

• Moore Monkton 1573 ib

• More Mounketon 1399 Pat

• More Mouncton 1611 FF

• Moor Mountain 1756 PRBrw

Etymology

'The monks' farm', v. munuc , tūn . The allusion is lost, but the place was in the district belonging to Christ's Church (later the Priory of the Holy Trinity), York, at the time of the DB survey; it is certainly much older than the grant of lands here to Fountains Abbey in the twelfth century. 'Moor' (v. Moor Monkton Moor infra ) to distinguish it from Nun Monkton across the R. Nidd (v, 2infra ).