Newbury

Meanings

proper noun

A place in England:
1. A town and civil parish with a town council in West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU4767).
  A local government district in Berkshire formed in 1974 and renamed West Berkshire in April 1998.
2. A hamlet in the south of Tonge parish, Swale district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ9259).
3. A hamlet in Coleford parish, Somerset (OS grid ref ST6950).
4. A hamlet in Horningsham parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8241).
A village in Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.
A place in the United States:
1. A township in LaGrange County, Indiana.
2. An unincorporated community in Wabaunsee County, Kansas.
3. A town in Essex County, Massachusetts.
4. A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
5. A township in Geauga County, Ohio.
6. A town and village therein, in Orange County, Vermont.
A small rural settlement near Palmerston North, Manawatū-Whanganui region, New Zealand.
A locality in the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia.
A surname.

From Old English niwe (“new”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”). Doublet of Newburgh.

More words from Old English

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APA

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