Etymology

Stoughton

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK638490). Full definition →

Old English stoc
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromstoc“house, dwelling”
  2. English todayStoughton

From Old English stoc (“house, dwelling”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). Doublet of Stockton.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishstoc all →

stokeStockportTavistock

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.