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.

Little Smeaton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Womersley

Historical Forms

  • Smedetone 1086 DB
  • Smitheton(a), Smytheton(a) 1339 FF
  • Smytheton(a) Minori 12 Pont
  • parva Smytheton(a) 13 YDii 1311 NCyWills 1313 Dunelm
  • Litle Smytheton(a) 1315 DodsN
  • Smetheton 1339,1369,1374 FF
  • Smeton 1413 YI
  • Parva Smeton 1402 FA
  • Lit(t)le Smeton 1504 FF 1572 YDxiii,68
  • Little Smeaton 1584,1608 FF
  • Smeaton parva 1638 SessnR

Etymology

with the same meaning as Kirk Smeaton 51supra , from which it is distinguished by the affix (v. lȳtel ).