Yarnton
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]- (surname): Yarranton, Yarrington
Etymology
[edit]Recorded as Hardintone in the Domesday Book, the village's name derives from the Old English personal name Earda + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
[edit]Yarnton (countable and uncountable, plural Yarntons)
- A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4712). [1]
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
[edit]- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Rowarth is the 36401st most common surname in England, belonging to 91 individuals.
References
[edit]- Survey of English Place-Names
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Yarnton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Oxfordshire, England
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- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Oxfordshire, England
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- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English