The story
- Old English · derived fromwinter“winter”
- English todayWinterton-on-Sea
Recorded as Wintretuna in the Domesday Book, the village's name derives from Old English winter (“winter”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”); the suffix on-Sea was added to distinguish this village from Winterton in Lincolnshire.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishwinter all →
winterWentworthWinterbottomwintertide
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.