Etymology

Freckleton

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in Fylde borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4328). Full definition →

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The story

From the Old English personal name *Frecla + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.