Netherton Family History

English (Cornwall and Devon): habitational name from one or more of the many minor places called Netherton in Devon (the placename occurs in the parishes of Berry Pomeroy, Buckland Monachorum, Combe Martin, Farway, Haccombe, Hartland, Sherford, and Staverton) or from one or more of the other places in England called Netherton found in Worcestershire, Northumberland, Lancashire, and Yorkshire.

All of these placenames derive from Middle English nether ‘lower’ + toun ‘settlement’ (Old English neothera, tūn).