English Explanatory Dictionary

Wroughton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A village and civil parish in Swindon district, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1480).
  2. A habitational surname.

Word forms

Wroughton Wroughtons

Etymology

Perhaps from Old Norse hverfr (“shifty, changeable”), referring to a local river, + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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