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.

Normanton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Normanton

Historical Forms

  • Normetune, Normatune, Normantone 1086 DB
  • Normantun, Normanton(a) 1177–86 YChviii 1190–1215 13 Lewes303 1225 Pat 1235 FF 1244 Ebor 1542 Testvi
  • Northmanton(e) 1275–1298 WCR

Etymology

'Farmstead of the Norwegians', v. Norðman , tūn , Introd.