Clitheroe

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Clitheroe (countable and uncountable, plural Clitheroes)

1. A town and civil parish with a town council in Ribble Valley borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7442).
2. A habitational surname.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Clitheroe is the 6990^th most common surname in England, belonging to 957 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Clitheroe”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 346.
• Forebears

Anagrams

• Ochiltree