Kirton, in the Bassetlaw Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, is a hybrid name, a compound of Old Norse kirkja ‘a church’ and Old English tun ‘ an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; an estate’.
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J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire. English Place-Name Society Volume XVII (1940), pp. 52-53.
