Fife Place-name Data

Morton

Morton KBS CRA S NO583127 1 363 30m

Mortoun of Pitmillie 1633 APS v, 85, ch.77 [see KBS Introduction]
Mortown 1750s Roy (Protracted Copy)
Morton 1753 Roy sheet 19, 5
Moor Town 1775 Ainslie/Fife
Morton 1828 SGF
Morton 1855 OS 6 inch 1st edn

Sc muirtoun

‘Farm on the muir or rough grazing land’. It was a division of Pitmilly KBS, as the 1633 form Mortoun of Pitmillie shows (APS v, 85, ch.77).

This place-name appeared in printed volume 3

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