Etymology

Alderton

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0033). Full definition →

Old English alor
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromalor“alder”
  2. English todayAlderton

From Old English alor (“alder”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishalor all →

alderAldershotAldridgeEllertonAlderwickAldrethAllbrookArtingstall

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.