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Rowton

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From Old English rūh (“rough”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”); compare the doublet Roughton.

proper noun Rowtons

  1. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester district, Chester, England (OS grid ref SJ4464).
  2. countable, uncountable A village in Ercall Magna parish, Telford and Wrekin district, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6119).
  3. countable A habitational surname from Old English.

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@misc{rowton_2026,
  title = {Rowton},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rowton},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}