Surname
Burniston
“enclosure; settlement, town”
Burniston is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Burniston goes back to a word meaning “enclosure; settlement, town.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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