Does anyone know the origin of the English surname 'Salt'?

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Does anyone know the origin of the English surname 'Salt'?

I would be very interested to know as they were my wife's ancestors.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Salt
This name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is an English locational
surname from the town of Salt in Staffordshire, recorded as "Selte"
in the Domesday Book of 1086, and as "Salt" in the 1167 Pipe Rolls
of that county. The name derives from the Olde English pre 7th
Century "selte" meaning a salt-pit. At the beginning of the century
there were salt works within two miles of the town. Locational
surnames were usually acquired by a local landowner, or by the lord
of the manor, and especially by those former inhabitants of a place
who had moved to another area, and were thereafter best identified
by the name of their birthplace.

The surname from this source is first recorded at the end of the
12th Century (see below). One William de Saut appears in the 1203
Staffordshire Pleas Rolls and an Alyce Salte in the Burial Records
of St. James' Church, Clerkenwell, London, dated 1599. William Salt
(1805 - 1863) was a Staffordshire antiquary who made archaelogical
collections from the county. He was also a member of the Royal
Society of Literature. The first recorded spelling of the family
name is shown to be that of
Nicholas de (of) Salt, which was dated
1199, witness in the "Assize Court Rolls of Staffordshire", during
the reign of
King Richard 1, known as "The Lionheart", 1189 - 1199