Wavendon
Major Settlement in the Parish of Wavendon
Historical Forms
- (gemæru) wafanduninga 969 BCS1229
- Wavendone, Wawendene 1086 DB
- Wauendene 1185,1189 P
- Wauendon 1186,1189 P
- Wavyngden 1300 Ipm
- Wavyn(g)don 1300–20 Linc 1340,1341 Pat 1369,1375 Cl 1512 LP
- Wavindon 1333 Ipm
- Wavendene 1346 FA
- Wavynden 1390 Pat
- Waunden 1405–20 Linc 1482 ADv 1535 VE
- Wondon 1509 Vern
Etymology
This clearly contains the same pers name that is found in Wandon End (Herts), c. 1300 BM Wauendene , and that pers name must be the OE cognate of the name Waba which Piper gives in the Libri Confraternitatum 363. Hence, 'Wafa's hill.'
Places in the same Parish
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