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Boughton

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A placename:; A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF7002). countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    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). countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A placename:; A village in Ollerton and Boughton parish, Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6768). countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A habitational surname from Old English. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From the Old English personal name Bucca, a byname from bucc (“buck, he-goat”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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