English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Whaddon Hill

Early-attested site in the Parish of Stone

Historical Forms

  • Whetduna c.1210 Miss 14th
  • Watton Hill c.1825 O
  • Wotton Hill 1826 B

Etymology

OE  hwǣte -dūn , 'wheat-hill.' Cf. Whaddon supra . The assimilation in this case was in the original instance td > tt rather than td > dd .

Places in the same Parish