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Full record: Okehampton

County Devonshire
Transcript okinton
Icon description single building
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Description
Appearances
Etymology Okement, river-name + t.n, 'settlement'
Translation
Earlier editors Okynton (Gough)
Early Maps octonton (Angliae Figura)
Overwritten no (?)
Attested spelling Ochanton 1284 FA; all earlier attestations have the first element in a less reduced form