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Thornton

/ˈθɔː(ɹ)ntən/ · name

Meaning

  1. A large village in Wyre borough, Lancashire, England, part of the Thornton-Cleveleys conurbation (OS grid ref SD3442).
  2. A small village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7535).
  3. A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7545).
  4. A village in Bagworth and Thornton parish, Hinckley and Bosworth district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK4607).
  5. A number of places in the United Kingdom:
  6. A small village in Roughton parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2467).
  7. A hamlet in Shoreswood parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NT9547).
  8. A suburban village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SD3300).

Etymology / origin

From Old English þorn (“thorn”) + tūn (“settlement”).

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