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Ashton

Ashton

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

Ashton, a common name, usually ‘farmstead where ash-trees grow’, OE æsc + tūn; examples include: Ashton Ches. Estone 1086 (DB). Ashton Herefs. Estune 1086 (DB). Ashton Northants., near Oundle. Ascetone 1086 (DB). Ashton-in-Makerfield Wigan. Eston 1212. Affix is an old district name (Macrefeld 1121), from a Celtic word meaning ‘wall, ruin’ + OE feld ‘open land’. Ashton Keynes Wilts. Æsctun 880–5, Essitone 1086 (DB), Aysheton Keynes 1572. Manorial affix from the de Keynes family, here from the 13th cent. Ashton, Long N. Som. Estune 1086 (DB), Longe Asshton 1467. Affix from the length of the village. Ashton, Steeple & Ashton, West Wilts. Æystone 964, Aistone 1086 (DB), Westaston 1248, Stepelaston 1268. Distinguishing affixes from OE stīepel ‘church steeple’ and west. Ashton under Hill Worcs. Æsctun 991, Essetone 1086 (DB), Assheton Underhill 1544. Affix ‘under the hill’ refers to Bredon Hill. Ashton-under-Lyne Tamesd. Haistune c.1160, Asshton under Lyme 1305. Affix is from an old district name Lyme, possibly ‘escarpment’, see Burslem. Ashton upon Mersey Traffd. Asshton 1408. On the River Mersey, ‘boundary river’ from OE mǣre (genitive -s) + ēa.

However some Ashtons have a different origin: Ashton Northants., near Northampton. Asce 1086 (DB), Asshen 1296. ‘(Place at) the ash-trees’. OE æsc in a dative plural form æscum. Ashton, Higher & Ashton, Lower Devon. Aiserstone 1086 (DB). ‘Farmstead of a man called Æschere’. OE pers. name + tūn.
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Ashton

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Ashton ♀, ♂ Transferred use of the surname, a local name from any of the numerous places in England named with Old English æsc ‘ash tree’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. This occurs occasionally as a boy's name in England from the 1600s; it is now used also for girls, partly, perhaps, due to the vogue for Ashley.
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