Etymology

Rowton

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester district, Chester, England (OS grid ref SJ4464). Full definition →

Old English rūh
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromrūh“rough”
  2. English todayRowton

From Old English rūh (“rough”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”); compare the doublet Roughton.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishrūh all →

RowbothamRuffordRoughtonRowarthRufforth

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.