The story
- Old English · derived fromalor“alder”
- English todayEllerton
The name of the village in the East Riding of Yorkshire derives from the Old English personal name Æþelheard + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), while the hamlet in Shropshire is from Old English alor (“alder”) + tūn.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishalor all →
alderAldershotAldridgeAldertonAlderwickAldrethAllbrookArtingstall
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.