Linton

Meanings

1. A placename:
2. A number of places in England:
3. A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL5646).
4. A village and civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK2716).
5. A village and civil parish near Bromyard, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO6753).
6. A village and civil parish near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO6525).
7. A village and civil parish in Maidstone borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ7550).
8. A village in Ellington and Linton parish, Northumberland (OS grid ref NZ2691).
9. A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, previously in Craven district; also known as Linton-in-Craven (OS grid ref SD9962).
10. A village in Collingham parish, Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE3847).
11. A hamlet north of Morebattle, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT7726).
12. A town in the Shire of Pyrenees and the Golden Plains Shire, central western Victoria, Australia.

Etymology

From either Old English līn (“flax”) or lind (“lime tree”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).