| Found in Domesday 1086AD | |
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| Names found: | Linctune (Derbyshire) |
| Lintone (Cambridgeshire) | |
| Lintone (Herefordshire) | |
| Lintune (Herefordshire) | |
| Current translation for Linton | ||||||||||||
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lin derived from lin/lind – flax/lime tree | |||||||||||
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ton derived from tun – a settlement on a hill | |||||||||||
| “Flax settlement on a hill” | ||||||||||||
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| Place name translation provided by saxonhistory.co.uk | ||||||||||||