Wootton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Wootton
Historical Forms
- (æt) Wudutune 958 BCS1042 12th
- Oitone, Optone 1086 DB
- Wuttona 1163 P 1285 Ass
- Wotton' c.1180–90 Frid c.1425 Ch 1277
- Wotone 1526 LS
- Wttona 1186–96 Eynsh 1246–7 Ass
- Wittona c.1190–6 Eynsh
- Witon' 1216 Cl
Etymology
'tūnin a wood,' v. wudu . widu , an earlier form of the word, occurs occasionally in OE, and frequently in place-names. On the second of the DB forms v. the hundred-name supra 244.