Cawston.
A village and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG136312).
Meaning & usage
A village and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG136312).
A village and civil parish in Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4773).
A rural community in the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia, Canada, named after rancher R. L. Cawston.
A habitational surname.
Where this word comes from
Recorded as Caustune in the Domesday Book, it probably derives from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Kalfr + -s- + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
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