norton canes
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A village and civil parish in Cannock Chase district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0207).
Etymology
Canes is thought to be a corruption of Cannock. An early recorded form was Norton-sur-le-Canok. The parish of Norton under Cannock was recorded in the 19th century, when it was incorporated into Brownhills District. Another source records Norton under Cannock as another name for Norton Canes in the 19th century. Brownhills was taken into West Midlands in 1974, whereas Norton Canes remains in Staffordshire.