Crichton.
A placename:
Meaning & usage
A placename: A village and civil parish in Midlothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT384619).
A placename: A ghost town in the Rural Municipality of Wise Creek, No. 77, Saskatchewan, Canada, named after James Crichton.
A placename: A neighbourhood of Mobile, Alabama, United States.
A placename: An unincorporated community in Red River Parish, Louisiana, United States.
A placename: An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States.
A habitational surname from places.
Where this word comes from
From Welsh carreg (“rock”) + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), analysable as the modern -ton.
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