English Explanatory Dictionary

Branxton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A town in the Cessnock council area and the Singleton council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  2. A village and civil parish in northern Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NT8937).

Word forms

Branxton

Etymology

From the Proto-Celtic personal name *Branoc + -s- + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Related words

Braxton

Derived words

East Branxton
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