The earlier name is that of Morton which will come from the acid peat land which the Anglian settlers found in the fen in around the year 500.

[3] In the late 19th century Morton Road railway station opened in 1872 and finally closed in 1964.

[4] A gazetteer of the 19th century[5] said: MORTON, a village and a parish in Bourne district, Lincoln.

The village stands near Car dyke; 2½ miles N by E of Bourn r. station, and has a post office under.

There are a Baptist chapel, a free school, and charities £33.George Hussey Packe, the 19th-century South Lincolnshire Member of Parliament and chairman of the Great Northern Railway, was born at Hanthorpe Hall in 1796.

Over the two and half centuries since the land was drained, this has largely oxidized away leaving the underlying First Terrace gravel and the mainly clays of the Barroway Drove Beds.

However, there, there is a broad ridge of the Terrington Beds, the remains of a huge marine creek which was not laid down until the Bronze Age and was still active when the Romans diverted Bourne Eau into it by means of what is called by archaeologists 'the Bourne-Morton Canal'.

[citation needed] Morton Grade I listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

[9] The ecclesiastical parish is Morton (Bourne), part of the Ringstone in Aveland group of the Deanery of Beltisloe, Diocese of Lincoln.