The story
- Old English · derived fromhamor“hammer-sedge”
- English todayHammerton
Recorded as Hambretone in the Domesday Book, 1086. Perhaps from Old English hamor (“hammer-sedge”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishhamor all →
hammerHamerHamertonhammer pond
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.