Waddesdon
Major Settlement in the Parish of Waddesdon
Historical Forms
- Votesdone 1086 DB
- Wettesdon' 1167 P
- Watisdun 1195 Cur(P)
- Votesdune c.1200 BM
- Wottesdon 1211–2 RBE 1220 Fees317 1220–34 WellsR 1220 Bract 1247 Ass 1255 For 1292 1302 FA 1305 Cl 1327 Pat
- Wotthesdune 1212 Fees117
- Wettesdena 1222 Bract
- Wettesdon 1227 Ass 1337 Pat
- Wottesdun 1224 Pat 1225 Abingd
- Wotesdon 1227 Ass 1232 WellsR 1240 Gross 1241,1247 Ass 1315 Pat
- Wotteston 1240 Gross 1265 Misc
- Whotesdon 1241 Ass
- Wocdesdone 1284 FA
- Wodesdon 1327,1346 Pat 1423 IpmR
- Wotysdon 1356 ADiii
- Woddeston 1365 Pat
- Woddesden 1377 Cl
- Woddesdon 1474 Pat 1477 ADiii
- Wodeston 1509 LP
- Wottesdon al. Odesdon 1512 LP
- Wotesdon or Waddesdon 1755 BW
Etymology
Cf. Wottesbroc in the bounds of Winchendon (St Frides 8).
'Wott's hill' v. dun . Wott gave his name not only to the hill but to the brook which runs south-west from it and his name may be preserved in Watbridge supra . This name is otherwise unknown. We may note however a Ricardus Wot in Tillingham (Ess) in the Domesday of St Paul's (60) and a Wotgar in Heybridge in 1222 (ib. 56).Wota in Searle, inferred from wotan hlinc (BCS 1216) probably has no justification as it is almost certain that þæne wotan hlinc should read wohan , 'crooked.' v. woh .