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A number of places in the United Kingdom:

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name/ˈoʊvɚtən/US/ˈəʊvətən/UK
  1. A number of places in the United Kingdom: A suburb of Frodsham, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5277).

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  2. A number of places in the United Kingdom: A former civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, merged into Malpas civil parish in 2015.

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  3. A number of places in the United Kingdom: A hamlet in Ashover parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3462).

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  4. A number of places in the United Kingdom: A hamlet in Arlingham parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7210).

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  5. A number of places in the United Kingdom: A village and civil parish in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU5149).

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  6. A number of places in the United Kingdom: A village and civil parish in City of Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4358).

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  7. A number of places in the United Kingdom: A small village and civil parish (without a council) in Hambleton district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5555).

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  8. A number of places in the United Kingdom: A small village in Richard's Castle parish, south Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5072).

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  9. A number of places in the United Kingdom: A hamlet in West Monkton parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST2628).

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  10. A number of places in the United Kingdom: A hamlet in Checkley parish, Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0438).

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  11. A number of places in the United Kingdom: A village next to Middlestown, City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2516).

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  12. A number of places in the United Kingdom: A hamlet near New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX9864).

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  13. A number of places in the United Kingdom: A hamlet near Lybster, Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref ND2836).

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  14. A number of places in the United Kingdom: A suburb of Greenock, Inverclyde council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS2675).

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  15. A number of places in the United Kingdom: A hamlet near Port Eynon, City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS4685).

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  16. A number of places in the United Kingdom: A village and community in Wrexham borough county borough, Wales, historically in a detached part of Flintshire (OS grid ref SJ3741).

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  17. A habitational surname from Old English.

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  18. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Cooper County, Missouri.

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  19. A number of places in the United States: A village in Dawson County, Nebraska.

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  20. A number of places in the United States: A community in Moapa Valley, Clark County, Nevada.

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  21. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Ohio.

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  22. A number of places in the United States: A township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

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  23. A number of places in the United States: A city in Rusk County and Smith County, Texas.

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  24. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia.

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Where this word comes from

From Old English ōfer (“riverbank”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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