In the last 25 years the name of Burtonwood has been carried by thousands of American servicemen to countries all over the world. It is the only place in the British Isles to bear this name, and is possibly more widely known than Warrington, to which it was originally a subservient manor. THE WOOD BY THE TUN’ Probably the original name of Burtonwood was simply ‘Burton’, which means the ‘tun’, or farmstead, by a ‘burh’, or fortified manor. The burh could have been the borough of Warrington. The wood, however,…
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