Etymology

Grafton

G2R1A1F4T1O1N1

Today it means: A village and civil parish in Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO496493). Full definition →

Old English grāf
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromgrāf“grove”
  2. English todayGrafton

From Old English grāf (“grove”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishgrāf all →

grovepalgraveGrafham

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.