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Survey of English Place-Names

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Luttons Ambo

Major Settlement in the Parish of Weaverthorpe

Historical Forms

  • Ludton 1086 DB
  • duabus Luttunis 1108–14 RegAlb
  • Luttons two 1650 ParlSurv
  • Luttons-Ambo 1828 Langd

Etymology

It is a township consisting of East and West Lutton.For Latin ambo 'both,' cf. Huttons Ambo (PN NRY 40) and Dickins, Proc. Leeds Philos. Soc. (Lit. and Hist .) iii, 335.

Places in the same Parish