Baston, in the Ness Wapentake of Lincolnshire, is an Anglo-Scandinavian hybrid compound from the Old Norse male byname Bak meaning ‘back’ and the Old English element tun ‘an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; an estate’.
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Kenneth Cameron, A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (1998), p. 11.
