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Whaddon Surname Meaning

From Whaddon (Bucks, Cambs, Gloucs) to Whaddon in Alderbury (Wilts) or Whaddon in Semington (Wilts). The Bucks, Cambs, and Gloucs place-names derive from Old English hwǣte ‘wheat’ + dūn ‘hill’.

Whaddon in Alderbury derives from Old English hwǣte + denu ‘valley’. Whaddon in Semington derives from Old English wād ‘woad’ + dūn.

There may have been some confusion with Waddon.

Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016


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