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Fenton

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

Fenton, ‘farmstead or village in a fen or marshland’, OE fenn + tūn; examples include: Fenton Cambs. Fentun 1236. Fenton Lincs., near Claypole. Fentun 1212. Fenton Lincs., near Kettlethorpe. Fentuna c.1115. Fenton Stoke. Fentone 1086 (DB). Fenton, Church & Fenton, Little N. Yorks. Fentune 963, Fentun 1086 (DB), Kirkfenton 1338. Affix from OE cirice, OScand. kirkja. Fenton Town Northum. Fenton 1242.

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Fenton

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Fenton ♂ Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from any of the various places (for example, in Cumbria, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, and Yorkshire) so called from Old English fenn ‘marsh, fen’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.

Short form: Fenn.

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Fenton

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Fenton, a spendthrift young gentleman in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.

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	Fenton's Melton an unheard of success.(SportsXtra) Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 5/1/1998
	Fenton fights On.(THE FIRST WORD) Magazine article from: Antiques Roadshow Insider; 1/1/2009
	Fenton students oppose airport expansion.(Neighbor) Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 11/12/2000