Etymology

Millington

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Today it means: A locality and former civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England, now mostly in Millington and Rostherne civil parish (OS grid ref SJ728847). Full definition →

Old English mylen
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The story

  1. Old English · derived frommylen“mill”
  2. English todayMillington

From Old English mylen (“mill”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishmylen all →

MiltonMilneMillbrookMilburnMilbourne

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.