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.

Mathon

Parish in the County of Worcestershire

Etymology

Transferred (in great part) to Herefordshire in 1897. It is in Doddingtree Hundred in DB, but was later transferred to Pershore, cf. 1275 SR.

Major Settlements