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‘farmstead or village in a fen or marshland’, OE fenn + tūn; examples include: Fenton Cambridgeshire Fentun (1236). Fenton Lincolnshire, near Claypole. Fentun (1212). Fenton Lincolnshire, near Kettlethorpe. Fentuna (c.1115). Fenton City of Stoke. Fentone (1086) (DB). Fenton, Church & Fenton, Little N. City & County of Yorks. Fentune (963), Fentun (1086) (DB), Kirkfenton (1338). Affix from OE cirice, OScand. kirkja. Fenton Town Northumberland Fenton (1242).

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  • Elijah Fenton (1683–1730),an English poet, biographer and translator.
  • Geoffrey Fenton (c. 1539–1608), an English writer
  • James Fenton (born 1949), an English poet, journalist and literary critic. He is a former Oxford Professor of Poetry

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