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Aughton

Aughton proper noun: a village in Ellerton parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7038).

Proper noun

Aughton (countable and uncountable, plural Aughtons)

  1. A village in Ellerton parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7038).
  2. A village and civil parish in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3905).
  3. A hamlet in Halton-with-Aughton parish, City of Lancaster district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD5567).
  4. A village in Aston cum Aughton parish, Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4586).
  5. A hamlet in Collingbourne Kingston parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU2356).
  6. A habitational surname from Old English.

Forms of Aughton

pluralAughtons

Origin of Aughton

From Old English āc (“oak”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”); compare the doublet Acton.

Words formed from Aughton

Questions about Aughton

What does Aughton mean?
Aughton means a village in Ellerton parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7038).
What part of speech is Aughton?
Aughton is a proper noun.

Words near Aughton in the dictionary

  1. Aughrim
  2. aught
  3. aughted
  4. aughties
  5. aughting
  6. Aughton
  7. Aughton Park
  8. Aughtons
  9. aughts
  10. Augie
  11. Augier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Aughton (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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