Risdon Family History

English: habitational name primarily from either of the two Devon places called Risdon in Jacobstowe and Bratton Clovelly parishes but perhaps also to a lesser extent from other places so named including Riseden in Wadhurst (Sussex), Riseden in Goudhurst (Kent), and Risden in Hawkhurst (Kent).

The Devon placenames derive from Old English hrīs ‘brushwood’ + dūn ‘hill’. The Sussex and Kent placenames derive from Old English hrīs + denn ‘pasture’.