Boughton

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proper noun

A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF7002).

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Meanings

proper nounBoughton (countable and uncountable, plural Boughtons)

plural Boughtons

  1. A placename:
    1. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF7002).
    2. countableuncountableA village and civil parish to the north of Northampton in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, formerly in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP7565).
    3. countableuncountableA village in Ollerton and Boughton parish, Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6768).
  2. countableuncountableA habitational surname from Old English.

Origin

From the Old English personal name Bucca, a byname from bucc (“buck, he-goat”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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APA

Boughton. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Boughton

MLA

“Boughton.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Boughton. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Boughton,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Boughton.

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