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Meaning & History
The name of a village in Cambridgeshire, ultimately derived from a contraction of Old English
Hengestestun which possibly meant "town of Hengest", itself from the genitive of the Old English byname
HENGEST (or from Old English
hengest "stallion") and Old English
tun "enclosure, yard, town".