Boughton.
A placename:
Meaning & usage
A placename: A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF7002).
A placename: A village and civil parish to the north of Northampton in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, formerly in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP7565).
A placename: A village in Ollerton and Boughton parish, Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6768).
A habitational surname from Old English.
Where this word comes from
From the Old English personal name Bucca, a byname from bucc (“buck, he-goat”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
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