Loughton
English
editEtymology
editFrom the Old English personal name Luhha + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editLoughton (countable and uncountable, plural Loughtons)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A town and civil parish in Epping Forest district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ4396).
- A village in Loughton and Great Holm parish, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8337).
- A small village in Wheathill parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO6183).
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms
editStatistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Loughton is the 15207th most common surname in England, belonging to 341 individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Loughton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 463.
- Forebears
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Towns in Essex, England
- en:Towns in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Essex, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Villages in Buckinghamshire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Places in Buckinghamshire, England
- en:Villages in Shropshire, England
- en:Places in Shropshire, England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English