A proper noun referring to either a town in northwest England (Merseyside) or a type of institutional setting.
English place name, from Old English 'sæf' (sedge plant) and 'tun' (settlement/town)—literally 'settlement where sedges grow.' Sefton is historically documented since Anglo-Saxon times.
Most place names in England tell the story of the landscape—Sefton's name literally describes what grew there over a thousand years ago, a marshy plant that would have been common in northwest England's wetlands!
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