Larton is a hamlet, located next to Frankby and near to West Kirby, on the Wirral Peninsula, England. The name is of Viking origin, deriving from the Old Norse Leir-tun, meaning 'clay farmstead'. Larton was formerly part of Newton-cum-Larton, in the West Kirby parish of the Wirral Hundred. Its population was 49 in 1801 and 44 in 1851.