Cawston

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A village and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG136312). countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A village and civil parish in Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4773). countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A rural community in the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia, Canada, named after rancher R. L. Cawston. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A habitational surname. countable, uncountable

Etymology

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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