Drayton

Meanings

1. Any of several places in England, with more in other countries named after the English ones:
2. A suburban area of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU672860).
3. A village and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP830922).
4. A village and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG185135).
5. A suburb of Daventry, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP5662).
6. A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4241).
7. A village and civil parish near Abingdon, Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire.
8. A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST404248).
9. A hamlet in Chaddesley Corbett parish, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO906760).
10. A locality in Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.
11. A community in Wellington County, Ontario, Canada.
12. An unincorporated community in Dooly County, Georgia, United States.

Etymology

From Middle English Drayton, from Old English Drægtūn (literally “town where logs are dragged”), from draġan (“to draw, drag”) + tūn (“enclosure, town”). Alternatively from Proto-Brythonic *treβ (“town, settlement”) + Old English tūn.