# Morthen

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{{short description|Hamlet in South Yorkshire in England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place
| country                  = England
| coordinates              = {{coord|53.39|-1.29|display=inline,title}}
| official_name            = Morthen
| population               =
| metropolitan_borough     = [Rotherham](/source/Rotherham_(borough))
| metropolitan_county      = [South Yorkshire](/source/South_Yorkshire)
| region                   = Yorkshire and the Humber
| constituency_westminster = [Rother Valley](/source/Rother_Valley_(UK_Parliament_constituency))
| post_town                = ROTHERHAM
| postcode_district        = S66
| postcode_area            = S
| dial_code                = 01709
| os_grid_reference        = SK4789
| static_image             = Horse riders on York Lane, Morthen (geograph 3487071).jpg
| static_image_caption     = York Lane, Morthen 
}}

'''Morthen''' is a hamlet in [South Yorkshire](/source/South_Yorkshire) in [England](/source/England), lying between [Brampton-en-le-Morthen](/source/Brampton-en-le-Morthen) and [Laughton-en-le-Morthen](/source/Laughton-en-le-Morthen).<ref name="hey">[David Hey](/source/David_Hey), ''Medieval South Yorkshire''</ref> The population of the hamlet as taken at the 2011 Census was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of [Thurcroft](/source/Thurcroft).

thumb|left|Former chapel of St James
Morthen lay in the [Viking](/source/Viking) district also named "Morthen".  This had already ceased to function by the [Norman Conquest](/source/Norman_Conquest), but gave its name to several villages in the area.  In the early Mediaeval period, [Aston](/source/Aston%2C_South_Yorkshire) and [Dinnington](/source/Dinnington%2C_South_Yorkshire) were also described as being "-in-Morthen".<ref name="hey" />

The name of the hamlet originates in the [Old Norse](/source/Old_Norse) for "moorland assembly".  The assembly probably met in a meadow lying next to the ridge running between [Upper Whiston](/source/Upper_Whiston) and the hamlet of Morthen.<ref name="hey" />

However, another plausible source for the name of Morthen is offered in the book "Athelstan" by Paul Hill, in which he states Morthen means "Slaughter Field". Given the proximity of a nearby stump of a Saxon cross, which is said by Guy Points in his "Yorkshire. A Gazetteer of Anglo Saxon and Viking Sites" to commemorate the epic Battle of Brunanburgh in 937 would tie the cross and the name together.

==See also==
*[Listed buildings in Whiston, South Yorkshire](/source/Listed_buildings_in_Whiston%2C_South_Yorkshire)

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category-inline|Morthen}}

Category:Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham
Category:Hamlets in South Yorkshire
Category:Ancient subdivisions of Yorkshire

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