Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Hwætedune c.880 BCS558

• Hyætedune (sic) 1062 KCD812 13th

• Watedone 1279 Ass

• Wetedon 1259 Ass

• Watdone 1277 FF

• Watedene 1279 Ass

• Whatedon 1296,1390 FF 1362 BM

• Watedon 1436 SR

• Whatindone 675 BCS 13th BCS697 933 13th

• Whatendon 1306 Chertsey

• Whatyngdon 1325 Ass 1491 FF

• Whatyndon 1441 FF

• Whatidon 1403 Ipm

• Whetindune 967 BCS1195 13th

• Whetindon 1235 Ass

• Whetindune 13th Chertsey

• Watendone 1086 DB

• Watindone 1255 Ass

• Watyndone 1327 FF

• Watyngdone 1357 SR 1403 FF

• Wetesdon 1292 Pat

• Whadington 1558 FF

• Waddington 1809 MandB

Etymology

'Wheat hill,' v. hwæte , dun , but there seems to have been early confusion with the corresponding adj. hwǣten (cf. Croydon infra 47), and the en -suffix in the adj. was then confused with connective ing . For such an adj. formation cf. further Whetsted (K), earlier Hwætanstede , Hwetenstede (KPN 179), Roydon (Sf), c. 1002 ASWills Ryendune and (Ess) DB Ruindune , and Oatenden Field in Limpsfield infra 399.