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Airport in Dorset, England
Compton Abbas Airfield (IATA: n/a, ICAO: EGHA) is a grass airstrip 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) south of Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. Compton Abbas Aerodrome
Compton_Abbas_Airfield
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
population of 216. The name Compton Abbas derives from the Saxon "cumb-ton", meaning 'village in a narrow valley', plus "abbas" which refers to Shaftesbury
Compton_Abbas
English filmmaker (born 1968)
outdoor kitchen". 'Compton Abbas airfield changes hands', Blackmore Vale Magazine, 14 October 2022, page 24. "Guy Ritchie buys Compton Abbas airfield in Dorset"
Guy_Ritchie
Name list
part of a place name (for example, the English villages of Compton Abbas and Milton Abbas). The name usually relates to land previously owned by an abbess
Abbas_(name)
Village in Dorset, England
19th-century additions. The word 'Abbas' used here as part of a place name (another example would be the English village of Compton Abbas) usually relates to land
Milton_Abbas
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up Abbas or abbas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Abbas may refer to: Abbas (name), list of people with the name, including: Abbas ibn Ali (645–680)
Abbas
British philanthropist (1927-2010)
August 2010, she died of lung cancer at her home, Lower Lane House in Compton Abbas, Dorset. Colpus, Eve (2004). "Tree [née Cavendish], Lady Anne Evelyn
Lady_Anne_Tree
Female superior of a community of nuns, often an abbey
abbesses. The word 'Abbas' is used as part of a place name (for example, the English villages of Compton Abbas and Milton Abbas). The name usually relates
Abbess
Type of valley used in place names
Sussex Compton Abbas, Dorset Compton Abdale, Gloucestershire Compton Bassett, Wiltshire Compton Beauchamp, Oxfordshire Compton Bishop, Somerset Compton Dando
Combe
Christchurch Town Centre, Church Knowle, Clifton Maybank, Colehill, Compton Abbas, Compton Valence, Coombe Keynes, Corfe Castle, Corfe Mullen, Corscombe, Coryates
List_of_places_in_Dorset
Village in Dorset, England
Sutton Waldron, Fontmell Magna, Ashmore, Melburry Abbas & Cann, Twyford, Hartgrove, Compton Abbas, Todber, Stour Row, Stour Provost, East Orchard Shroton
Iwerne_Minster
Electoral ward in Dorset, England
Beacon ward is rural and contains the civil parishes of Ashmore, Cann, Compton Abbas, East Orchard, Fontmell Magna, Guy's Marsh, Hammoon, Iwerne Courtney
Beacon_(ward)
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Retrieved 10 May 2015. Booton, Peter (April 2012). "Melbury Hill, Compton Abbas and Fontmell Down". Dorset Life. Retrieved 26 July 2014. https://www
Fontmell_Magna
British-Turkish-Cypriot businessman (1941–2025)
to the UK. Peter Dimond, the pilot who flew Nadir out of the UK from Compton Abbas Airfield in a twin-engined private plane, was jailed for two years in
Asil_Nadir
Village in Dorset, England
petitioned them to end the war. Under the leadership of the rector of nearby Compton Abbas, 2,000 of them assembled on the hill and defied Oliver Cromwell's requests
Child_Okeford
Town in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Sturminster_Newton
Town and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Shaftesbury
Postcode area within the United Kingdom
Rockbourne, Martin New Forest, Dorset SP7 SHAFTESBURY Shaftesbury, Compton Abbas, Fontmell Magna, Donhead St Andrew, Donhead St Mary, Berwick St John
SP_postcode_area
Town and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Gillingham,_Dorset
Plateau in southern England
Hill (263 m) above Melbury Abbas, "appears almost like an island rising above the flat, sea-like expanses of" Compton Abbas airfield. Further south are
Cranborne_Chase
Village in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Ashmore
Village in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Shillingstone
Market town in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Blandford_Forum
Electoral ward in Dorset, England
and Broadwey ward Dorset Council Population 4,518 Major settlements Compton Abbas Current ward Created 2019 (2019) Councillor David James Northam (Liberal
Upwey_and_Broadwey_(ward)
about a mile east of the village of Melbury Abbas, Dorset. Breeze Hill is 2 miles northeast of Compton Abbas and some 2+1⁄2 miles southeast of the town
Breeze_Hill
British stained glass artist (1925–1972)
South-east chapel - Christ is revealed in Glory (1962) St Mary's Church, Compton Abbas West window - Ascension (1959) St Michael and All Angels' Church, Beddington
W._T._Carter_Shapland
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Bryanston
Old Sarum Airfield Public 781 2,562 Grass Shaftesbury Dorset EGHA Compton Abbas Airfield Private 803 2,635 Grass St Just Cornwall EGHC LEQ Land's End
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Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Melbury Abbas is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England. It is situated at the edge of the Blackmore Vale under the scarp of Cranborne Chase
Melbury_Abbas
Village in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Glanvilles_Wootton
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Winterborne_Zelston
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Marnhull
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Stourpaine
Major road in England
Longburton, Bradford Abbas, Sherborne Castle, Sturminster Newton Nether Compton 111 179 Nether Compton south of Over Compton 112 180 (Old Compton Lane / Marl Lane)
A30_road
American homebuilt aerobatic aircraft
DR-107 "One Design" DR-107 at Compton Abbas Airfield General information Type Homebuilt aircraft National origin United States Manufacturer Aircraft Spruce
Rihn_DR-107_"One_Design"
Radio station in England
had come to an end with the local contact address now being given as "Compton Abbas Airfield, near Salisbury". The station became part of the UKRD Group
Vale_FM
Historical division of Dorset, England
contained the following parishes: Cann Compton Abbas East Orchard Fontmell Magna Iwerne Minster Melbury Abbas Sixpenny Handley (originally known as just
Sixpenny_Handley_Hundred
Hamlet in Wiltshire, England
the Property Services Agency as the mast was only a short flight from Compton Abbas Airfield. "Wincombe :: Survey of English Place-Names". epns.nottingham
Higher_Wincombe
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Motcombe
Town and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Stalbridge
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Farnham,_Dorset
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Sutton_Waldron
Village in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Winterborne_Kingston
Village in Dorset, England
which also includes Winterborne Kingston, Winterborne Whitechurch, Milton Abbas and Hilton. The ward population in the 2011 census was 3,897. The ward is
Milborne_St_Andrew
privileges and of land at Donhead (St Andrew and St Mary), Wiltshire; Compton Abbas, Sixpenny Handley, Gussage (St Andrew), Tarrant Hinton, Iwerne Minster
List_of_Anglo-Saxon_charters
Diocese of the Church of England
Rood Shaftesbury Team Compton Abbas: St Mary the Virgin Enmore Green: St John the Evangelist Margaret Marsh: St Margaret Melbury Abbas: St Thomas Motcombe:
Diocese_of_Salisbury
Village in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Hammoon
Village in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Hinton_St_Mary
Village in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Iwerne_Courtney
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Pimperne
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Okeford_Fitzpaine
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Winterborne_Stickland
Village in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Bourton,_Dorset
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Durweston
Former non-metropolitan district in England
Bryanston, Buckhorn Weston Cann, Charlton Marshall, Chettle, Child Okeford, Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard, East Stour Farnham, Fifehead Magdalen, Fifehead
North_Dorset_(district)
British microlight aircraft
Shadow A CFM Shadow at Compton Abbas Airfield, Dorset, England (June 2013) General information Type Two seat microlight National origin United Kingdom
CFM_Shadow
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Tarrant_Hinton
Road in England
status. The road passes through the hamlet of Cann and the villages of Compton Abbas, Fontmell Magna, Sutton Waldron, Iwerne Minster and Stourpaine before
A350_road
Liverpool England EGGW LTN London Luton Airport London England EGHA Compton Abbas Airfield Shaftesbury England EGHB Maypole Airfield Maypole, Kent England
List of airports by ICAO code: E
List_of_airports_by_ICAO_code:_E
original (PDF) on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2013. Melbury Hill, Compton Abbas and Fontmell Down at DorsetLife. Accessed on 26 Mar 2013. Ordnance Survey
Melbury_Hill
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
East_Orchard
English clergyman and entomologist
1833. Richard was the Rector of Little Bredy, Dorset and Curate of Compton Abbas. Before Alfred was born, Richard and Sophia had four other children:
Alfred_Edwin_Eaton
Village in Dorset, England
of Hilton, in Dorset, England, north of Cheselbourne and west of Milton Abbas. It consists of the settlements of Higher Ansty, Lower Ansty, Pleck (also
Ansty,_Dorset
Village in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Silton
Village in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Kington_Magna
Village in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Belchalwell
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Buckhorn_Weston
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Stour_Provost
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
was 60. Anderson Manor was built for the third John Tregonwell of Milton Abbas in 1622. It is constructed out of dark red brick with bands of vitrified
Anderson,_Dorset
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
and the western part of the village formed part of neighbouring Milton Abbas parish, resulting in Winterborne Whitechurch church standing outside its
Winterborne_Whitechurch
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
East_Stour,_Dorset
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Spetisbury
Village in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Hazelbury_Bryan
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Pathfinder Series, sheet 1299 (ST60/70) Cerne Abbas & Hazelbury Bryan, published 1986, ISBN 0-319-21299-8 Wightman, Ralph (1983)
Mappowder
Village in Dorest, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Tarrant_Monkton
Village in Dorset, England
village, eventually joining the River Stour. To the southwest is Milton Abbas. Residents of Winterborne Houghton used to be known as "Houghton Owls",
Winterborne_Houghton
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Turnworth
and Cranborne Rural District East Dorset Compton Abbas 216 6.04 Shaftesbury Rural District North Dorset Compton Valence Dorchester Rural District West Dorset
List of civil parishes in Dorset
List_of_civil_parishes_in_Dorset
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Tarrant_Rushton
Hamlet in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Bagber
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Tarrant_Keyneston
Electoral ward in Dorset, England
Legged Cross ward Dorset Council Population 9,101 Major settlements Compton Abbas Current ward Created 2019 (2019) Councillor David Shortell (Conservative)
West Moors and Three Legged Cross (ward)
West_Moors_and_Three_Legged_Cross_(ward)
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Charlton_Marshall
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Pulham
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Manston,_Dorset
Village in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Chettle
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Fifehead_Neville
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Blandford_St_Mary
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Tarrant_Gunville
St Rumbold), Compton Abbas, East Stour, Fontmell Magna, Gillingham, Holy Trinity Shaftesbury, Iwerne Minster, Margaret Marsh, Melbury Abbas, Motcombe, St
List of poor law unions in England
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Human settlement in England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Winterborne_Clenston
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Tarrant_Crawford
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Tarrant_Launceston
Street in the West End of London
Old Compton Street is a road that runs east–west through Soho in the West End of London, named after Henry Compton who raised funds for St Anne's Church
Old_Compton_Street
Village in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Ibberton
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Stourton_Caundle
Hamlet in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Tarrant_Rawston
Up Cerne Sixpenny Handley Hundred: Cann Compton Abbas East Orchard Fontmell Magna Iwerne Minster Melbury Abbas Sixpenny Handley West Orchard Sturminster
List_of_hundreds_in_Dorset
election 7 June 1973) to 5 May 1983: Beaminster (2) Bothenhampton (1) Bradford Abbas (1) Bradpole (1) Bridport (5) Broadmayne (1) Broadwindsor (1) Burton Bradstock
List of electoral wards in Dorset
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Village and civil parish in Dorset, England
Bryanston Buckhorn Weston Cann Charlton Marshall Chettle Child Okeford Compton Abbas Durweston East Orchard East Stour Farnham Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead
Fifehead_Magdalen
COMPTON ABBAS
COMPTON ABBAS
Surname or Lastname
English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in North Yorkshire named Coulton, probably from Old English col ‘(char)coal’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Campton in Bedfordshire, named in Old English as ‘settlement (Old English tūn) by the Camel river’ (a lost river-name of Celtic origin).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Compton.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place called Kempton in Shropshire, named from an Old English personal name Cempa (or the Old English vocabulary word cempa ‘warrior’) + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.English : variant of Kimpton.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from places in Hertfordshire and Hampshire, both named from the Old English personal name C̄ma + Old English tūn ‘settlement’.English : variant of Kempton.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
From the Winding Farm
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Essex, Suffolk, and Warwickshire, named Clopton from Old English clopp(a) ‘rock’, ‘hill’ + tūn ‘settlement’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Crompton in Lancashire, named with an Old English crumbe ‘river bend’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Crumpton.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from any of the numerous places called Hampton, including the cities of Southampton and Northampton (both of which were originally simply Hamtun). These all share the final Old English element tÅ«n ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, but the first is variously hÄm ‘homestead’, hamm ‘water meadow’, or hÄ“an, weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of hÄ“ah ‘high’. This name is also established in Ireland, having first been taken there in the medieval period.The descendants of the clergyman Thomas Hampton, resident at Jamestown, VA, in 1630, lived in VA through three generations, multiplying their homesteads as the colony expanded and then branched into SC.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places throughout England (but especially in the south) named Compton, from Old English cumb ‘short, straight valley’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a Middle English personal name, Colstan, which is probably from Old Norse Kolsteinn, composed of the elements kol ‘charcoal’ + steinn ‘stone’.English : habitational name from Colston Basset in Nottinghamshire, or the nearby Car Colston, both of which seem to have originally been named from the Old Norse personal name Kolr + Old English tūn ‘settlement’. The first syllable of Car Colson was originally the defining prefix kirk ‘church’.English : habitational name from Coulston in Wiltshire, which is named with the genitive case of an Old English personal name Cufel (diminutive of Cufa) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from either of two places named Rampton, in Cambridgeshire and Nottinghamshire; the first, and probably also the second, is named Old English ramm ‘ram’ + tūn ‘settlement’. However, the modern surname is concentrated in Hampshire, suggesting perhaps that another, unidentified source could be involved.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Tom, a short form of the personal name Thomas.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Crumpton.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from any of various places called Colton in England, perhaps also Colton House in Scotland. Examples in Norfolk, Staffordshire, and North Yorkshire are from the Old English personal name Cola (or the cognate Old Norse Koli; see Cole 2) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The place so named in Somerset has as its first element the Old English personal name Cūla (of uncertain origin). The one in Cumbria has a river name apparently derived from a Celtic word meaning ‘hazel’.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin) and French
English (of Norman origin) and French : status name for a professional champion (see Champion, Kemp), from the Norman French form campion.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of numerous places named from Old English cotum (dative plural of cot) ‘at the cottages or huts’ (or sometimes possibly from a Middle English plural, coten). Examples include Coton (Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Staffordshire), Cottam (East Yorkshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire), and Cotham (Nottinghamshire).French : from a diminutive of Old French cot(t)e ‘coat (of mail)’ (see Cott).John Cotton (1584–1652) was a noted Puritan preacher, who landed at Boston, MA, from London in 1633 and became leader of the Congregationalists in America.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : see Cumpston.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Lampton in Greater London (formerly Middlesex) or Lambton in County Durham, named in Old English as ‘farm or settlement where lambs were reared’, from lamb ‘lamb’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
COMPTON ABBAS
COMPTON ABBAS
Boy/Male
Australian, Czech, French, German
Frenchman; Diminutive of Frantisek
Boy/Male
Hindu
Name of a sage
Boy/Male
Welsh
Legendary son of Arthur.
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Famous
Boy/Male
Tamil
Tanisk | தாநீஸà¯à®•Â
Daughter
Surname or Lastname
South German
South German : occupational name for a basket and bassinet maker, from an agent derivative of Middle High German benne ‘work basket’, ‘bassinet’, ‘cradle’.In some cases probably an altered spelling of German Bender.English (East Midlands) : possibly a variant of Bender.
Girl/Female
French, Hebrew, Hindu, Indian, Latin, Marathi
White; Moon; Shining White One; Rising Sun
Girl/Female
Australian, Chinese
Fragrant
Boy/Male
Bengali, Hindu, Indian
Sun Ray
Boy/Male
Arabic, Australian, British, English, Muslim
Free
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COMPTON ABBAS
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COMPTON ABBAS
n.
The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.
v.
Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer.
v. i.
To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.
n.
A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.
a.
See Compony.
n.
A plug in a flute or an organ pipe, to modulate the tone.
n.
Cloth made of cotton.
n.
A preparation of fruit in sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered; as, a compote of pears.
n.
The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.
a.
Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony.
v.
Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.
v. i.
To have a joint right with others in common ground.
a.
See Compony.
n.
See Pumpion.
a.
Alt. of Compone
n.
The iron bottom to which grapeshot are fixed.
n.
A stopper of a cannon or a musket. See Tampion.
v. i.
To board together; to eat at a table in common.