barton, berton, bertone

[A.S. beretun court-yard; from bere barley, and tuna plot of ground fenced round or enclosed by a hedge; hence (1) a close, a field, (2) a dwelling, house, yard, farm, (3) a village, (4) a cla , course, turn.] 1. The part of a manorial estate which the lord of the manor kept in his own hand; a demesne. ( Spelman.) It is used in this sense in Devons hire (Blount), and Cornwall ( Carew ). In the first named county it also signifies a large as contradistinguished from a small farm. ( Mar shall .) 2. An area in the hinder part of a country house where the granaries, barns, stables, and all the lower offices and places appropriated to domestic animals belonging to a farm are situated, and where the busine of the farm is transacted. ( Spelman .) 3. A coop or place to keep poultry in. ( Ker sey, Bailey , Phillips , .) (For the whole subject see Boucher .) Bar-ton, s. & a. [Compare barton (q.v.).] A. As substantive: Geog.: The name of many parishes and places in England. B. As adjective : Barton beds , Barton series: A series of beds laid bare in Barton Cliff, in England, in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Lyell considers them the equivalents in age and position of the French Grès de Beauchamp , or Sables Moyens. He places them at the base of the Upper Eocene, immediately below the Headon series, and just above the Brack les ham series of the Middle Eocene. The Barton sands have been cla ed by the Government surveyors as Upper Bagshot, and the Barton clay as Middle Bagshot, but Lyell considers the evidence insufficient as yet completely to bear out these precise identifications. (Lyell: Student's Manual of Geology , 1871, pp. 227, 233, .)