Fife Place-name Data

Walton

Walton ATL S NT200906 1 385 150m NOF

Weltoun 1539 RMS iii no. 2264
Waltoun 1590 Inchcolm Chrs. p. 216
Weltoun 1597 Retours (Fife) no. 1538 [Agnes Balmanno, in half the lands of Walton in the barony of Auchtertool (in dimidietate terrarum de Weltoun in baronia de Auchtertule)]
Wellton 1642 Gordon MS Fife
Welltoun 1654 Blaeu (Pont) West Fife
Welltou<n> 1654 Blaeu (Gordon) Fife
Walltown 1753 Roy sheet 17, 5
East Wallton 1753 Roy sheet 17, 5
Waltown 1775 Ainslie/Fife

Sc wall + Sc toun

‘Well farm’. This was a subdivision of the episcopal estate of Auchtertool. See also Craigton and Newton, above.

Before it disappeared beneath the Mossmorran ethylene plant it was referred to locally as The Walton.

/ðəˈwɔltən/

This place-name appeared in printed volume 1

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