Talk:Winton, Cumbria

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This link was added to the article after discussion on the WP Reliable Sources Noticeboard. See: WP:RSN exercise. No information from the CCHT link has been put into the body of the article in the form of citations because it has not yet been verified for 100% accuracy by the Victoria County History project for Cumbria. (This will take some years to do). Laplacemat (talk) 10:23, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Etymology
The text says "The word Winton is Old English or Anglo-Saxon in origin, Wyntuna meaning a pasture". This is nonsense. Who on earth dreamt this up? There is no such word or anything like it in Bosworth Toller. I agree that it is Anglo-Saxon. The "-tuna" is presumably a farm (town). The "Wyn-" is capable of a variety of interpretations: it could be the site of a battle. If "Wyn-" is really "Winna" it could be an Anglian settlement named as "enemies" or a settlement of enemies of the Anglo-Saxons, but this is unlikely. Alternatives include "toil, labour, trouble, hardship; profit, gain; conflict, strife, war".

The allegation here is a gross exaggeration of David Mills' Dictionary of place names credited in ref.3. But is says "probably" and has "*winn" which means he made it up and he specifies that "-tuna" means farmstead (the only bit which is correct).

Freuchie (talk) 21:51, 18 July 2023 (UTC)