Rowton Family History

English:: habitational name from one or more of several places called with Old English rūh ‘rough’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’. These include Rowton near Shrewsbury (Shropshire), Roughton in Worfield (Shropshire), Rowton (Cheshire), and The Roughter in Icklesham (next to Guestling Sussex). Compare Roughton.

Occasionally a habitational name from Wroughton (Wiltshire) from the river Worf (the old name for the river Ray probably from the British root uerb ‘wind turn’) + Old English tūn ‘farmstead estate’.

Habitational name from Rowton near Ercall Magna (Shropshire) from Old English tūn ‘farmstead estate’ with an uncertain first element.