Etymology

Burniston

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in Scarborough district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA0193). Full definition →

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The story

From the Old English personal name Brȳning + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.