Tankerton

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | 151 words | Copyright

Tankerton Kent. Tangerton 1240. Probably ‘farmstead or estate of a man called Tancred or T(h)ancrad’. OGerman pers. name + OE tūn.

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