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Malton

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Meaning

  1. A market town and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Ryedale district (OS grid ref SE7871).
  2. A neighbourhood of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
  3. A habitational surname from Old English.
  4. A placename:
  5. A hamlet in Lanchester parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1846).
  6. A former settlement in Glenn County, California, United States.

Etymology / origin

Probably from Old English mæþel (“speech”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), hence a settlement where a public assembly was held.

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