Hambleton

Meanings

proper nounHambleton (countable and uncountable, plural Hambletons)

A place in England:
1. countableuncountableA former local government district in North Yorkshire, created 1 April 1974 and abolished 1 April 2023.
2. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in Wyre district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD3742).
3. countableuncountableA hamlet in Bolton Abbey parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SE0553).
4. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, previously in Selby district (OS grid ref SE5530).
5. countableuncountableA hamlet in Cold Kirby parish, previously in Ryedale district and Kilburn High and Low parish, previously in Hambleton district, North Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE5283).
6. countableuncountableA village and civil parish on a peninsula in Rutland Water, Rutland (OS grid ref SK9007). The village is also known as Upper Hambleton, the name used on OS maps.
countableuncountableA small town in Tucker County, West Virginia, United States.
countableA habitational surname from Old English.

From Old English hamel (“crooked (hill)”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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