indicate the level to which a name has been verified.
Type Political Subdivision & Settlement
Usage English (British)
Meaning & History
From Boughton, which means "farmstead where the beech-tree grows" from Old English boc meaning "beech tree" and tun "enclosure, farmstead", combined with Malherbe, a manorial affix taken from the 13th-century owner Robert de Malherbe, distinguishing the village from others with the same name (all of which Domesday Book records as Boltune or Boltone).Boughton Malherbe is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone district of Kent, England.