# Other Monktons

"Monkton" — monks' farm, or monks' settlement — turns out to be one
of the most-recycled place names in England: wherever a village
belonged to a monastery, it had a good chance of picking up the name.
This page collects the others, so far as we've found them, with a
short summary and a link to each.

```{admonition} Same name, different monks
:class: note

Nearly every English Monkton below owes its name to the same pattern
as our own: a village given to a monastery, which is remembered in
the name centuries after the monks themselves are gone. Monkton,
Vermont is the exception — it's named after a person (see below), not
a monastery at all.
```

## England

| Place | Location | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| [Monkton, Devon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkton,_Devon) | On the River Otter, ~2 miles NE of Honiton, East Devon | Population 169 (2011). Its parish church is also dedicated to **St Mary Magdalene** — the same dedication as ours. |
| [Monkton, Tyne and Wear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedworth_Monkton_and_Jarrow) | Within Jarrow, South Tyneside | Historically one of the joint townships of Hedworth, Monkton and Jarrow — the latter home to the Venerable Bede's monastery. Monkton Dene Park holds Green Flag status. |
| [Monkton Combe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkton_Combe) | ~3 miles south of Bath, Somerset | Population 554 (2013). Grew up around the Somerset Coal Canal (opened 1800), later a branch railway with its own short-lived station. |
| [West Monkton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Monkton) (includes Monkton Heathfield) | ~2 miles NE of Taunton, Somerset | Population 2,787 (2011). Named after the Saxon king Centwine's grant of the village to **Glastonbury Abbey** in 682 — "West" as being west of the abbey's other estates. |
| [Bishop Monkton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_Monkton) | ~5 miles south of Ripon, North Yorkshire | Population 778 (2011). Took the "Bishop" prefix to distinguish it from its two near neighbours below. |
| [Nun Monkton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nun_Monkton) | 8 miles NW of York, at the Ouse/Nidd confluence | A Benedictine nunnery, endowed in 1172 by Ivetta of the Arches, owned the village — hence "Nun." Houses cluster round a 20-acre green with a duck pond and maypole. |
| [Moor Monkton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moor_Monkton) | On the River Nidd, 7 miles NW of York | The third of the York-area trio, distinguished from Bishop and Nun Monkton by its situation on the moor. |
| [Monkton Farleigh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkton_Farleigh) | ~3 miles NW of Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire | Population 460 (2011). On high ground midway between Bath and Bradford-on-Avon. |
| [Winterbourne Monkton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterbourne_Monkton) | ~1 mile north of Avebury stone circle, Wiltshire | Population 160 (2011). Its famous neighbour, Avebury, makes this one of the smaller Monktons with one of the biggest doorsteps. |
| [Winterborne Monkton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterborne_Monkton) | Between Dorchester and Weymouth, Dorset | Population ~50 (2013) — probably the smallest Monkton of all. |
| [Monkton Deverill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkton_Deverill) | ~5 miles south of Warminster, Wiltshire | Anciently known as East Monkton; now part of the parish of Kingston Deverill. |

## Wales

| Place | Location | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| [Monkton, Pembroke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkton,_Pembroke) | Adjoining Pembroke, Pembrokeshire | Population 1,688 (2001) — the largest of the English/Welsh Monktons here. Monkton Priory, across the river from Pembroke Castle, was founded in 1098 by Arnulf de Montgomery. |
| [Monkton, Vale of Glamorgan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Donats) | Hamlets within the community of St Donats | East and West Monkton — no separate article of their own; mentioned within [St Donats'](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Donats) Wikipedia entry. |

## Scotland

| Place | Location | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| [Monkton, South Ayrshire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkton,_South_Ayrshire) | 1.5 miles north of Prestwick, on the edge of Glasgow Prestwick Airport | Originally called *Prestwick Monachorum* ("Prestwick of the monks") — the same "monks'" idea as Monkton, just kept as a qualifier rather than becoming the name itself. |

## North America

| Place | Location | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| [Monkton, Ontario](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkton,_Ontario), Canada | Perth County, Ontario, west of Milverton | A small village, part of the Municipality of North Perth. |
| [Monkton, Maryland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkton,_Maryland), USA | Northern Baltimore County | An unincorporated community with a population of around 4,856 — likely the most populous place called Monkton anywhere. |
| [Monkton, Vermont](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkton,_Vermont), USA | Addison County | Population 2,079 (2020 census). Chartered in 1762 and probably named for **General Robert Monckton**, a British Army officer of the day — nothing to do with monks at all. |

## Also worth knowing

[Monkton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkton,_Brisbane), Corinda,
Brisbane, Australia isn't a place but a single heritage-listed house,
built in 1925 and named after "Monkton Farm," the Dunlop family's
farm nearby — included here as a curiosity rather than a fellow
village.

```{admonition} About this page
:class: note

Compiled from Wikipedia and each place's own local records — corrections,
better sources, and any Monktons we've missed (there may well be more)
are very welcome; see [About](about.md) for how to get in touch.
```