Worton Family History
Worton Name Meaning
English (Staffordshire and Worcestershire): habitational name from Nether and Over Worton (Oxfordshire) Worton (Wiltshire) Worton in Aysgarth (North Yorkshire) Worton Hall in Isleworth (Middlesex) or Worton in Cassington (Oxfordshire). The placenames derive from Old English wyrt ‘plant vegetable’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’ (i.e. a kitchen garden) except for Nether and Over Worton (Oxfordshire) which derives from Old English ōra ‘edge ridge’ + tūn.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press