Somerton

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | 425 words | Copyright

Somerton, usually ‘farmstead used in summer’, OE sumor + tūn: Somerton Norfolk. Sumertonne 1044–7, Somertuna 1086 (DB). Somerton Oxon. Sumertone 1086 (DB). Somerton Somerset. Sumortun 901–24, Summertone 1086 (DB).

However the following has a different origin: Somerton Suffolk. Sumerledetuna 1086 (DB). ‘Farmstead of a man called Sumarlithi’. OScand. pers. name + OE tūn.

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