Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Bortun 1086 DB

• Burton, Burtun 1090–7 Ch 1308 Kendii,142 1120–30 YCh 1157 Lanc 1189–96 Kendi,2 1190 Cockers 1190–1220,1210–35 Ipm 1272 Ass25 1279 Ogilby 1675

• Burton in Kendal(e), Burton in Kendall l.12 Weth 1200–46 Cockers 1244 MaryH44 1281 Ebor 1823 M

• Berton 1190–5 LaCh

• Byriton 1398 Pap

Etymology

v. burh-tūn 'fortified farmstead'; for the affix (distinguishing it from Burton in Lonsdale YW vi, 248), v. Kendal (i, 61infra ).