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.

Murton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Appleby St Michael

Historical Forms

  • Morton 1235 FF 1279 Ass19 1292 1547 Rent32
  • Moreton 1315 Ipm 1369 Cliff
  • Murton 1376,1377 Pat 1392 Cl 1704 Terr
  • -als. Mooreton 1613 FF

Etymology

'Moorland farmstead', v. mōr , tūn . On the later form Mur - cf. Phonol. §15.