English Explanatory Dictionary

Winterton-on-Sea

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A village and civil parish in Great Yarmouth district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG4919).

Word forms

Winterton-on-Sea

Etymology

Recorded as Wintretuna in the Domesday Book, the village's name derives from Old English winter (“winter”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”); the suffix on-Sea was added to distinguish this village from Winterton in Lincolnshire.

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