This name means raven city. It derives from the Anglo-Saxon surname “Rimington”, a place near Gisburn in west Yorkshire. The name is composed of two Old English (Anglo-Saxon) elements: “hræfn”, which in turn derives from the Ancient Germanic “*hrabnaz > raban”, meaning “raven” plus “tūn”, meaning “town, settlement, homestead”. The raven peeps forth from the mists of time and the thickets of mythology, as a bird of slaughter, a storm bird, a sun and fire bird, a messenger, an oracular figure and a craftsman or culture hero.
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