Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Uuidutuun 723–7 BCS158 11th

• Wotton(e) 1046–50 KCD939 17th FF 1195 Ipm 1320

• Wttona 1138–47 BM

• Wotton al. Walwaynes 1417 Pat

• Wotone 1086 DB

• Wageneswitona 1138–47 Stafford

• Waghenewotton 1262 Ass

• Waghnes Wotton 1285 FF

• Waywens Wotton 1530 ib

• Wau(e)nes Wotton 1285 FF 1308 Ipm

• Wouenes Wotton ib.

• Waw(e)nes Wotton 1342 ADv 1447 ADii

• Wotton Wawen 1517 StratGild

• Wotton Wavell 1553 Pat

• Wotton Wawen al. Wawens Wotton 1578 FF

• Wovenes Wotton 1298 Pat

• Wauwaynes Wotton 1337 Ipm 1443 StratGild

• Wotton al. Walwaynes 1437 Pat

Etymology

'Farm by the wood,' v. wudu , tun . “As for the name, there is no question but that it was originally occasioned from the situation, being amongst woods: and so, for the more facility of pronunciation called Wootton instead of Wootton (sic), having the addition of Wawen in regard that one Wagen (commonly called Wawen ) Lord thereof before the Norman Conquest, had his seat here” (Dugdale 599). The same man would seem to have given name to Wawens Moor infra 247, which lies by the parish boundary, v. (ge)mære.