Cuddington
Major Settlement in the Parish of Cuddington
Historical Forms
- Cudintuna 1176 BM
- Cudinton 1186 P c.1218 WellsL 1247 Ass 1297 Pat
- Cudington c.1218 WellsL
- Codington 1231 RegRoff 1536 LS
- Cudyngton 1295 Ch
- Codintone 1302 FA
- Codyngton 1339,1377 Pat 1396,1398 IpmR 1485 Ipm 1535 VE 1539 LP
Etymology
'Cuda's farm' v. ingtun .
It is hardly possible to recover the original form of the pers. name present here. According to the medieval spellings it may have been any of the pers. names Cudda , Cuddi , or Cuda (the last marked long by Sweet).