Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Waddon 1774 Hutch1 1795 Boswell

Etymology

, 1811 OS , Waddon (a farm) 1774Hutch1, 1795 Boswell , cf. Walton Hill , Walton Hill Grd & Walton Hill Plant . (sic)1844TA , perhaps to be associated with the surname of Stephen Waddon ' 1545Weld 1 , ' hill where woad grows ' , v. wād , dūn ; however , if Bartholomew de Wotthun '13Weld 2 ( mentioned in connection with Bradpole ) belongs here , the first el . may be Woth ( the earlier name of R . Brit which flows just to the W of the hill ) , with either dūn or tūn , cf. Watford Bridge &Watford Fm supra which lie ⅔ of a mile N from here , and Watton in Symondsbury par . infra ( where alternatively the surname form de Wotthun ' may in fact belong ) .