The story
- Old English · derived fromhryċġ“ridge”
- English todayWrighton
Perhaps a habitational surname from Old English hryċġ (“ridge”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), or from the village of Reighton, in North Yorkshire.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishhryċġ all →
ridgeDandridge
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.