Etymology

Boughton

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF7002). Full definition →

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From the Old English personal name Bucca, a byname from bucc (“buck, he-goat”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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