  We use $K-band imaging to investigate the angular size and morphology of 10
6C radio galaxies, at redshifts $1\leq z\leq 1.4$. Two appear to be undergoing
mergers, another contains two intensity peaks aligned with the radio jets,
while the other seven appear consistent with being normal ellipticals in the
K-band. Intrinsic half-light radii are estimated from the areas of each radio
galaxy image above a series of thresholds. The 6C galaxy radii are found to be
significantly smaller than those of the more radioluminous 3CR galaxies at
similar redshifts. This would indicate that the higher mean K-band luminosity
of the 3CR galaxies results from a difference in the size of the host galaxies,
and not solely from a difference in the power of the active nuclei. The
size-luminosity relation of the $z\sim 1.1$ 6C galaxies indicates a 1.0--1.8
mag enhancement of the rest-frame R-band surface brightness relative to either
local ellipticals of the same size or FRII radio galaxies at $z<0.2$. The 3CR
galaxies at $z\sim 1.1$ show a comparable enhancement in surface brightness.
The mean radius of the 6C galaxies suggests that they evolve into ellipticals
of $L\sim L^*$ luminosity, and is consistent with their low redshift
counterparts being relatively small FRII galaxies, a factor $\sim 25$ lower in
radio luminosity, or small FRI galaxies a factor of $\sim 1000$ lower in radio
luminosity. Hence the 6C radio galaxies may undergo at least as much optical
and radio evolution as the 3CR galaxies.
