Great and Little Marton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The name Great and Little Marton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Great and Little Marton.

Listed Buildings Near Great and Little Marton

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Great and Little Marton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Little Marton Mill - 0.48 km

Great and Little Marton Today

Today Great and Little Marton lies within the administrative area of Blackpool.

Read more about modern Marton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

Mythop - 2.0 km E
Staining - 2.0 km N
Preese Hall - 3.6 km NE
Layton and Little Layton - 3.6 km NW
Weeton - 4.0 km E
Carleton and Little Carleton - 4.1 km N

Heritage Around [Great and Little] Marton

Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.

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Great and Little Marton in the Domesday Book (1086)