Etymology

Colton

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Today it means: A civil parish and small village in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD3186). Full definition →

Old English cola
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromcola“coal”
  2. English todayColton

From Old English cola (“coal”) + tun (“settlement”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.