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Survey of English Place-Names

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Buttington Tump

Early-attested site in the Parish of Tidenham

Historical Forms

  • æt Butting tune 894 ASC 9
  • Botynton 1323 MinAcct

Etymology

Buttington Tump, 1830 M, æt Butting tune 894A (9) ASC, Botynton 1323MinAcct . 'Farmstead associated with Butta', v. -ing 4 , tūn . An OE  pers.n. Butta is not recorded but it might be associated with the root but (t )- found in ON  bútr 'log, stump', Du  bot 'stocky, stumpy' and in a derivative OE  pers.n. Byttic (cf. Redin 151).