Chesterton.
A surname.
Meaning & usage
A surname.
A number of places in England: A suburb of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL4660).
A number of places in England: A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, on the outskirts of Peterborough (OS grid ref TL1295).
A number of places in England: A suburb of Cirencester, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0100).
A number of places in England: A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP5621).
A number of places in England: A hamlet in Worfield parish, south-east Shropshire (OS grid ref SO7897).
A number of places in England: A northern suburb of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ8349).
A number of places in England: A small village in Chesterton and Kingston parish, Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP3558).
A town in Porter County, Indiana, United States.
Where this word comes from
From Chester + -ton. For the place in the United States, from a shortening of Westchester (the name of the township it belongs to) + -ton.
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