Aughton
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English ac (“oak”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”); compare the doublet Acton.
Proper noun
[edit]Aughton (countable and uncountable, plural Aughtons)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A village in Ellerton parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7038).
- A village and civil parish in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3905).
- A hamlet in Halton-with-Aughton parish, City of Lancaster district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD5567).
- A village in Aston cum Aughton parish, Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4586).
- A hamlet in Collingbourne Kingston parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU2356).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Aughton is the 16969th most common surname in England, belonging to 291 individuals.
References
[edit]- Mills, David (1976) “Directory of Place Names”, in The Place Names of Lancashire, London: Batsford Books, →ISBN
- Ordnance Survey - Lancaster
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Aughton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 69.
- Forebears
Anagrams
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- English terms inherited from Old English
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- English doublets
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- English proper nouns
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- en:Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England
- en:Villages in England
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- en:Places in England
- en:Villages in Lancashire, England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Lancashire, England
- en:Villages in South Yorkshire, England
- en:Places in South Yorkshire, England
- en:Villages in Wiltshire, England
- en:Places in Wiltshire, England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English