Shackleton Beacon Hill
hill or mountain · Darlington
Old EnglishSurmised
Probable2 sources · name elements
This name combines an Old English personal name, 'Scaccel', with 'tūn', meaning settlement or farmstead, and 'beacn', meaning beacon. It refers to a hill with a beacon, possibly associated with the settlement of Scaccel.
Word origins
- Shackleton
- Old EnglishAttestedSettlement of Scaccel(from Scaccel "personal name", tūn "settlement, farmstead")
- Beacon
- Old Englishbeacon(from beacn "beacon")
- Hill
- Old EnglishAttestedhill(from hyll "hill")