)'...Tipton in full was formerly Tibbington, that is, the ton, town, or settlement of the tribe or clan, or descendants of the Saxon leader and warrior, Tib.'
'After this settlement of a Saxon community in the sixth century we have no record of Tipton till we come to Norman times, when the Conqueror ordered the great Domesday Survey of 1085-6.'
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