Etymology

Kempton

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Today it means: A village in Clunbury parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO359829). Full definition →

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The story

From the Old English personal name *Cempa, a byname from cempa (“soldier, warrior”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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