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From either the Old English personal name *Pīca or pīc (“point, peak, pinnacle”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Picton
Today it means: A hamlet and civil parish (without a council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref NZ4107). Full definition →