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Leighton

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

Leighton, ‘leek or garlic enclosure, herb garden’, OE lēac-tūn: Leighton Shrops. Lestone 1086 (DB). Leighton Bromswold Cambs. Lectone 1086 (DB), Letton super Bruneswald 1254. Affix is from a nearby place, ‘high forest-land of a man called Brūn’, OE pers. name + weald. Leighton Buzzard Beds. Lestone 1086 (DB), Letton Busard 1254. Manorial affix is from a family called Busard, no doubt landowners here in the 13th cent.

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Leighton

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Leighton ♂ Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from any of several places named with Old English lēac ‘leek’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, for example Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire.

Variant: Layton.

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