English: habitational name from any of the numerous places so
called, especially Ashton-under-Lyne near Manchester. Most are named
from Old English æsc ‘ash tree’ + tun
‘settlement’; the one in Northamptonshire is (æt þ?m)
æscum ‘(at the) ash trees’. Others have been assimilated to
this from different sources. The one in Devon is ‘the settlement
(tun) of Æschere’, while the one in Hertfordshire is ‘the
settlement of Ælli’.
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