Orton, Northamptonshire

Human settlement in England

Orton is a village and civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) west of Kettering, in North Northamptonshire, England.

The villages name means 'Higher farm/settlement' or 'ridge farm/settlement'.^[1]

References

1. "Key to English Place-names".

Further reading

• Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1973) [1961]. Northamptonshire. The Buildings of England (2nd ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 361. ISBN 0-14-071022-1.
• RCHME, ed. (1979). An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire. Vol. 2, Archaeological Sites in Central Northamptonshire. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. p. 120.