History The name, first attested around 970 as ', and in Latinised form by 1124 as ', derives from the earlier Celtic forms *mori 'sea' and *treb 'settlement' (c.f. Welsh môr-tref).David Mills, A Dictionary of British Place-Names, rev. edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 333.
History The name, first attested around 970 as ', and in Latinised form by 1124 as ' derives from the earlier Celtic forms *mori 'sea' and *treb 'settlement' (c.f. Welsh môr-tref).David Mills, A Dictionary of British Place-Names, rev. edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) p. 333.