English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Ancton

Early-attested site in the Parish of Felpham

Historical Forms

  • Anegeton, Anegheton 1279 Ass
  • Ancketon 1288 Ass
  • Anoughton 1540 LP
  • Angton 1641 Recov
  • Ancton 1694 MarC

Etymology

'Anneca's tun,' a derivative of the OE  pers. name Anna . For the sound-development cf. Duncton and Donnington supra 101, 69.

Places in the same Parish