Etymology

Bampton

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY5118). Full definition →

Old English bēam
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The story

  1. Old English · derived frombēam“beam, tree”
  2. English todayBampton

From Old English bēam (“beam, tree”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishbēam all →

beamBamfordhornbeambeam tree

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.