With that disregard for orthography in proper names which prevailed some three hundred years since, they are indifferently designated as Yarran, Yarranton, and Yarrington.

The name was most probably derived from two farms named Great and Little Yarranton, or Yarran (originally Yarhampton), situated in the parish of Astley.

The Yarrantons frequently filled local offices in that parish, and we find several of them officiating at different periods as bailiffs of Bewdley.
[3] Journals of the House of Commons, 1st July, 1648.
[4] YARRANTON'S England's Improvement by Sea and Land.

Part I.
London, 1677.
[5] There seems a foundation of truth in the old English distich-- The North for Greatness, the East for Health, The South for Neatness, the West for Wealth.
[6] State Paper Office.

Dom.