English Explanatory Dictionary

Londesborough

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE8645).
  2. A community in Central Huron municipality, Ontario, Canada.

Word forms

Londesborough

Etymology

Apparently from Old Norse Loðinn, Old English *Loden + Old English burg (“fort”). Perhaps based on a Proto-Brythonic formation equivalent to Gaulish *Lugudūnon.

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