English Explanatory Dictionary

Boughton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Boughton Boughtons

Etymology

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

Derived words

Boughton Malherbe Boughton under Blean Ollerton and Boughton
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