Capheaton

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | 211 words | Copyright

Capheaton Northum. Magna Heton 1242, Cappitheton 1454. ‘High farmstead, farmstead situated on high land’. OE hēah + tūn. The affix Cap- is from Latin caput ‘head, chief’.

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