English Explanatory Dictionary

Hammerton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The villages of Green Hammerton and Kirk Hammerton in North Yorkshire, England.
  2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Word forms

Hammerton Hammertons

Etymology

Recorded as Hambretone in the Domesday Book, 1086. Perhaps from Old English hamor (“hammer-sedge”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).

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