Penistone

See also: penistone

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Peniston

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Brythonic *penn (“head”) + Old English -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). No relation to penis.

Pronunciation

• (Yorkshire) IPA^(key): /pɛnɪstən/

Proper noun

Penistone (countable and uncountable, plural Penistones)

1. A market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2403).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Penistone is the 16229^th most common surname in England, belonging to 310 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Penistone”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears

Anagrams

• epitenons, stone pine