Etymology

Ashton

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Today it means: A hamlet in Bainton parish, City of Peterborough district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TF1005). Full definition →

Old English æsc
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromæsc“ash (tree species)”
  2. English todayAshton

From Old English æsc (“ash (tree species)”) + tūn (“enclosure, settlement”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishæsc all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.