bollington
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.63 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A town and civil parish with a town council in Cheshire East borough, and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9377).
Example Sentences
- "The township of Bollington (Macclesfield) has been very unhealthy the whole year. There were 50 deaths in it this quarter, 22 of which were from typhus and scarlatina."
- "Collieries are established in the townships of Hurdsfield, Rainow, Bollington, Adlington, Pott- Shrigley, Lyme, Worth, Poynton, and Norbury"
Etymology
From Middle English Bolin (“River Bollin”) + tūn (“settlement”), 'the settlement on the river Bollin'.