Witherenden :: Survey of English Place-Names

Witherenden

Early-attested site in the Parish of Ticehurst

very well be an English form for ON Viðarr , the name of some

Scandinavian follower of the royal house. This pers. name is far

too late to be probable in a place-name of this type, and it is

more likely that we have to do with an archaic Wiðer (a ), which

forms the basis of Wittering and Werrington (Nth) and is found

as the first part of the heroic name Wiðergyld . The name

means 'Wither's swine-pasture,' with the common connective

use of ing. v . denn.