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Barrington

The English word “Barrington” has 3 meanings listed here.

proper noun

  1. A civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, which includes the villages of Great and Little Barrington.
  2. A small village on the Barrington River, New South Wales, Australia.
  3. A rural community in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Etymology

* As an English surname, from several placenames, such as the one in Gloucestershire, from the Old English personal name Beorn + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). There is also the placename in Somerset of Norman origin, probably named after Barentin in Seine-Maritime, from Medieval Latin Barentinum, Barentini, of pre-Latin origin, perhaps of Celtic/Gaulish origin and…

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